Re: [libreoffice-users] writer vs calc behaviour in LO 6.0.1.1

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:50:08 +0000
Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 11:03 24/02/2018 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > I'm using the version in the subject line on Linux Mint. In calc if 
> > I insert the date using the insert menu and the date option I get a 
> > cell with today's date, formatted comprehensibly.  
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. If you are using the =TODAY() or 
> =NOW() functions, what you have is not today's date but the current 
> date whenever your spreadsheet is reopened.

I'm not using a function. In calc I pull down the insert menu and click
on date. Then the cell contents are text characters with today's
date. Not a function. This is what I'd like to be able to do in Writer.

Thanks to those who suggested workarounds.

Dave

> > If I do the same thing in Writer I can't, the option isn't there. I 
> > must (as far as I know) choose field then date. That gives me text 
> > that looks like "Date (fixed)" which is not what I want. I can do a 
> > print preview and see
> > that it will render as one might wish but that's not what I want. I 
> > really want to be able to simply insert today's date as a character
> > string.  
>
> I think your only problem here is that you have fields set to show 
> the field name instead of their value. You can toggle this display at 
> View | Field Names (or Ctrl+F9). Then you will see the date value as 
> text in the editing display as well as in Page Preview and actual
> printout.
>
> > Can anyone tell me a simple way to insert the data as characters 
> > rather than a field?  
>
> o Copy the field.
> o Paste it back over itself, but using Edit | Paste Special... (or 
> right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) and selecting 
> "Unformatted text" in the Paste Special dialogue.
>
> Er, or just type the date: the default format is only eight 
> characters (in my locale).
>
> > I think the behaviour I'm seeing breaks wysiwyg.  
>
> I hope so. Wysiwyg was always a bad idea: what you need in the 
> editing display is a clear indication of the structure of your 
> document, not necessarily its appearance. That way, you can see and 
> have some control over what will happen when it is displayed on 
> another system or you (or others) make any change.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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