Re: Time representation in Writer

On 22/10/11 13:59, Bruce Lloyd wrote:
> I was making a timetable in a *table *in a document in Writer and having
> trouble getting time to show properly and wonder if there is a way to
> change the configuration. The problem is when I want to write a time as
> '8.30' Writer automatically truncates it to '8.3' if I use a colon then
> Writer automatically makes it 8:30:00 (or was it 08:30:00) which is
> equally unsatisfactory. The only way I could overcome the problem was
> make the time '8.31' or use a comma '8,30'. If I needed '8.00' it ended
> up as '8' unless I wrote it as '8,00'
>
> I can't see why Writer bothers with such things as removing a zero from
> the end of a decimal and presumably the problem/solution is in table
> properties or Auto Correct or Auto Complete but I could not find it. It
> doesn't seem to happen when 8.00 is written in text just in a table. Is
> there something I can change?
>
> regards
> Bruce

Table | Number Format perhaps. But it still seems to like the time 
entered with a ':'.



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Mike Scott
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