Hi Eike,
Is that because of the ill-defined French keyboard that uses the '.' instead of ',' on the numeric keypad? ...
Yes, that's it or something very near that.
... If so, please take a look at menu Tools.Options.LanguageSettings.Languages and in that dialog checking the "Decimal separator key" should do what you're looking for. ...
This has absolutely no interesting effect on my computer.
... If it is not for the keyboard reason I would be interested in why you would like to change the separator.
On the one hand, In OpenOffice, regional settings have been already stored. This is a good idea because users are not compelled to manually define each parameter. But a free software gives "the freedom to adapt it to your needs" (freedom #1 according to the "free software definition" by the FSF). Therefore, as a matter of principle, we should be able to freely define the decimal separator and the other regional parameters as well, exactly as it is possible to do in the Windows Control Panel dialog "Regional and Language Options". On the other hand, On my notebook, there is no numeric keypad and I don't want to connect a USB keypad because an additional device would handle badly when I work in a train or a plane. I have to type in digits with capitals locked and the decimal separator with capitals unlocked. Lock, unlock, lock again, and so on... This is so tedious, so tiresome. A solution to fix the decimal separator problem would be to select another locale in OpenOffice but this would generate a problem with the thousands separator. Perhaps a specific locale plus a specific cell format would do it ? I say no because it would be time consuming by comparison with Excel. For those reasons, I really want to set the '.' as the decimal separator in the French environment and keep every other parameter unchanged. Thus, I could type in numbers easily and when I send a Calc document to anybody, the decimal separator would be seen as '.' or ',' according to the locale which has been selected on the target computer. Finally, I do hope my explanations are understandable (English is not my natural language as you suspect), and I do hope you can do something for me or you can tell me what I have to do to solve this problem which really drives me mad. Thank you in advance. Best regards. -- Redlet --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
