[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with date formatting

Am 03.03.2012 20:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> - I want to be able to cut and paste lines from a web page into the
> file, to make small updates. This is why I'm using Calc for editing. OO
> lets me paste data and it gets treated as I want. Hopefully with your
> suggestions for configuring LO, it'll do the same.

Collect the pasted HTML data on a sheet template if Calc handles the 
data the way you want. You can use a template sheet with the right 
locale and format settings in the right order of columns. Just paste the 
HTML as unformatted text which will preserve the formatting of the 
target cells rather than the HTML formatting of the source.
Instead of saving the sheet as csv you may also paste the used cells 
into a text editor before saving which produces tab separated text with 
the numberic strings as displayed on the sheet.
If some other software is supposed to read your data, English decimals 
with digits and one point only are the universally understood output 
formats for dcimal numbers, dates as ISO dates, percents as decimal 
fractions:

Raw ISO data like this ...
> 23123.98        2009-08-30 13:45:59     0.23

are more universal than localized format strings:
> EUR 23'123,98   8 Aug 2009 1:45:59 pm   23,00%

Including thousands separators, currencies, units or localized dates is 
counter productive when the importing software is interested in plain 
numbers or date values. All databases import English numerals and ISO 
dates without problems.


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