Issue 109749 - Entering dates in table cells autoformats them with no notification
Summary: Entering dates in table cells autoformats them with no notification
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 15765
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: writerneedsconfirm
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Reported: 2010-03-02 20:11 UTC by jameshfisher
Modified: 2010-03-02 20:24 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description jameshfisher 2010-03-02 20:11:53 UTC 
When a date is entered in a table cell, in any common format, and then the table
cell is left by the cursor, the cell content is reformatted to a DD/MM/YY
format.  No notification (of the corner 'pop-up' kind that I might expect for
other autoformatting) appears, whatsoever.  There is no option I can find to
disable this 'feature' by browsing the application, help pages, or the internet.

To be specific, at least all the following strings are replaced by '01/12/98':

  1 December 1998
  December 1998
  Dec 98
  Dec. 98

This is obviously undesirable behaviour:

1. This is not Calc; table cells should not have a distinction between data
structure and data representation (if this is what is happening).

2. No-one making the effort to type '1 December 1998' is going to want it
replaced by '01/12/98'.

3. The user should be notified of auto-replacement and have the option to switch
it off.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2010-03-02 20:23:46 UTC 
Duplicate.
To avoid the AutoFormat uncheck the Number recognition entry in the table
context menu.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 15765 ***
Comment 2 eric.savary 2010-03-02 20:24:05 UTC 
closed