Am 10.04.20 um 13:02 schrieb Dave:
My response is in-line with your original post.
On 10/04/2020 10:02, Peter Kovacs wrote:
I do some user help stuff on Facebook, and learn by that more about
using OpenOffice. (I do not have much Office needs in my private live.)
However there is in Calc the option to Format a cell. For instance if I
want to set a Cell to be of text Format I do:
1) Right click the cell
2) select format cell option
3) The config window will open and claim you are on the number Tab.
That is only true if the "Format Cells" dialog has not been opened
previously with another tab selected, otherwise the previously selected
tab will be reselected.
4) you select then in the Category Window the Format type i.e. "text> Now why
is the tab called number? I am irritated by this. For me it is
an oxymoron.
No, because a cell in a spreadsheet would in most instances contain a
numeric value (eg. Numbers, Percentage, Currency, Date, Time, etc.) that
could be used in a calculation. Which is what appears in the "Category"
list, plus the option to treat the cell(s) as non-numeric plain text.
right, that's the reason why in Writer is everything centered around
words, text and characters and not digits and numbers. ;-)
Does anyone remeber the thinking behind this or has it been always like
this and I just never knew.
To the best of my recollection it has been this way since Sun open
sourced OOo in 2001.
Speaking as an old employee of Sun I can confirm that it was always
about formatting numbers.
Marcus
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