Open Office question

[Volvo_ST1]

I'm not a secretary. I don't know my way around text programs and very rarely do I use Open Office. I can manage a business letter. So far so good!

I create a text document in Open Office. I need a two rows of columns, no problem. I type something in each column. I want to type a ration in each column in the bottom row, for example, 2:1, 4:1, 8:1, etc. Open Office automatically turns the ration that I type into a date! How can turn this auto-fill/guess feature off?

 

[XS650]

If you used Table to get your two columns, this should fix it

Quote:
Turning Number Recognition On or Off in Tables
OpenOffice.org can automatically format dates that you have entered into a table, according to the regional settings specified in your operating system.
Do one of the following:
Right-click in a table cell and choose Number recognition. When this feature is on, a check mark is displayed in front of the Number recognition command.
Choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org Writer - Table, and select or clear the Number recognition check box.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

That did the trick, thanks! I should have tried the right-click and checked all options.

I just noticed I wrote "ration" in my post. That should of course say "ratio." Maybe I was hungry.

 

[buickman50401]

Try Libre Office. While I use mostly MS, the few times I've had to use it its much less a PITA than OO.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: buickman50401
Try Libre Office. While I use mostly MS, the few times I've had to use it its much less a PITA than OO.


And I think LibreOffice (which is just a fork of OpenOffice) comes stock "out of the box" with some MS compatibilities that were never accepted into OpenOffice.

For all intents and purposes, OpenOffice is going to get phased out and everyone will soon be adopting LibreOffice. Go-OO, the "improved" OpenOffice that preceded LibreOffice, was already being used by most major Linux distributions *as* OpenOffice; in that if you chose to install "OpenOffice" you were, in fact, installing compiled code from Go-OO. Now, at least, they're all going to the properly re-branded LibreOffice.

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Originally Posted By: buickman50401
Try Libre Office. While I use mostly MS, the few times I've had to use it its much less a PITA than OO.


And I think LibreOffice (which is just a fork of OpenOffice) comes stock "out of the box" with some MS compatibilities that were never accepted into OpenOffice.

For all intents and purposes, OpenOffice is going to get phased out and everyone will soon be adopting LibreOffice. Go-OO, the "improved" OpenOffice that preceded LibreOffice, was already being used by most major Linux distributions *as* OpenOffice; in that if you chose to install "OpenOffice" you were, in fact, installing compiled code from Go-OO. Now, at least, they're all going to the properly re-branded LibreOffice.


Yup, I haven't noticed much difference between the latest versions of the two, but like you said, Libre is going to be the survivor so OO will get deleted next time I do a computer cleanup.

 

[javacontour]

Hmmmm,

I wonder if I'll find Libre Office in my official desktop distributions from my employer?

 

[Volvo_ST1]

Originally Posted By: XS650
Yup, I haven't noticed much difference between the latest versions of the two, but like you said, Libre is going to be the survivor so OO will get deleted next time I do a computer cleanup.


I replaced OO with LO a few days ago. So far I haven't noticed any differences between the two.