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Hi :)
Is this set-up in somewhere weird like

Format - "Styles and Formatting"?

Maybe one of the early chapters in the Published Guides might be able to
help set it more permanently;
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Ahh, chapter 3 of the "Getting Started Guide" is about styles.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 14 October 2014 21:50, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes@comcast.net> wrote:

On 10/14/2014 03:20 PM, bunk3m wrote:

Libreoffice is driving me nuts.

I am in Canada. UI is set to English US; Locale settings to English
Canada and Default Currency is CAD.

I have my Mac set dates to dd.mm.yyyy. (OSX 10.9.x)

For some reason Libreoffice (4.3.1.2) will only accept dates in the
YYYY-MM-DD format.

I'm happy that I can format the date to look DD.MM.YYYY but entering in
the YYYY-MM-DD is totally unnatural for me.

Actually, I only usually type the DD.MM and expect the YYYY to show up
automatically in Excel.  I'd like the same behaviour in LO if possible.

The date acceptance patterns will not accept anything except what is
loaded by default ... which is
D.M.YYYY;DD-MM-YYYY;D-M

I don't want to have to type the YYYY each time for D.M.YYYY.

I've tried to add D.M to the acceptance pattern but the text turns red
and won't save.  The D.M is always gone after trying to save.

So if the date acceptance patterns are supposed to be customizable by
the user ...

what do I have to do to get this to work?

Thanks in advance.
B.

PS I'm on digest mode.  Please CC me directly


Try this:

right click on a cell
select Format Cells
in category choose User Defined
in Format code enter:  00"."00".2014"

Then you can go to that cell and enter for example: 2512 and it should
display as 25.12.2014.

A couple of things to remember.  This looks like a date but I don't think
you could do date math with it.  I do this all the time but I just need it
to visually look like a date.  Also in 86 years you will need to rewrite it.

Regards,  Jim



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