At 19:38 02/10/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
I do have (naturally) a number of spread sheets.
I did create a page style, where I tried to set "numbers" to
standard (because there are NO decimals!) and "date" to "1999/02/10".
o Spreadsheet page styles do not have cell formatting, so your
attempts will have failed.
o If by "standard" you mean General (apologies if this is a locale or
language difference), this does not limit numbers to having no
fractional places. To do this, you need to select something like
"-1234" (format code "0"). But General will display no fractional
places for integral values.
However, when I apply that style, ...
Remember that your page style does not affect cell formatting at all.
... the "date" which had been unintelligible 5-digit numbers changes
to the specified format, ...
They are not entirely unintelligible, though are not meant to be
easily recognised. Dates (and date/times) are stored as the number of
days (and fractions of a day) since the date origin. They appear as
dates only when properly formatted. Remember that their appearance is
entirely dependent on formatting and not the underlying data.
... but at the same time columns with the age of patients (TWO
digits, no calculations whatsoever) and consecutive numbers switch
to a row of three # =because they are too narrow to display the
"1900/02/10" inserted. What is this nonsense all about?
This is because you have (nonsensically?) chosen to format the age
values as dates. Ages are not calendar dates, of course, so this was unwise.
Why is the age of a person (e.g. 33) be replaced by a nonsense date?
You have chosen to format the relevant cells as dates. The internal
value 33 will appear as the date 33 days after the date origin.
Also, while I specified the date as given above, opening the very
same file under kubuntu, it suddenly is reverse to 02/10/19[00]. Why?
The operating system is irrelevant, I think. But what is relevant is
the locale setting at Tools | Options... | Language Settings |
Languages | Language of | Locale setting (though this may be
inherited from the operating system).
AND the style I specified does not seem to be retained. When I close
the file and reopen (in particular if this is on another computer)
it, the settings seem to have vanished.
I think the idea here is that the date value you exemplified -
1900-02-01 - is indicated differently by default for users in
different locales. In the everyday format, with the year last, the
order of day and month needs to be appropriate for the user to
understand it correctly. Otherwise, your example date, 10 February,
may be read as 2 October. If you want date values to appear the same
for all users, regardless of their locale (and with the risk that the
dates will probably be misunderstood), I think you need to construct
the representation yourself as a text string. You can do this very
easily using the TEXT() function.
At 11:23 03/10/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
And HOW do I tell Calc (AND remember that setting!) that entering
simply "33" in a cell is NOT a date?
Simply by not choosing to format the relevant cells as Date.
As I said: I tried to set numbers to standard and date to
"1999/01/10" format. The page style I tried to create allows ONLY
one OR the other ...
No: page styles do not affect cell formats, so cannot be used somehow
to restrict cell formats the relevant pages may contain.
I do not understand, why it has to convert all those simple numbers to dates.
It doesn't: it does this only because you ask it to. (And there's no
"conversion", only different representation - which means that you
can set everything right by correcting the cell format, without
changing the underlying data.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker - privately
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