Hi, I've just had the same problem, I want to enter a year in the format YYYY, which I can't using the date/time field type. Having read this post I tried to choose an integer and have it set the length to 4, but it won't let me change the length of the integer. Any ideas? Thanks, Naomi -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Base-Date-issue-tp2609086p4006410.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted