On Sunday 20 April 2014 18:12:49 you wrote: > At 16:34 20/04/2014 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > >I am using AOO v 4.0.1, Debian Wheezy, Linux. I create a table in > >writer, select a range of cells, apply number formating. the > >'currency' number format. The cells are empty, data gets entered > >later. Formatting only works if there is a number in the cell. > > To achieve what you want, you need to tick Tools | Options... | > OpenOffice Writer | Table | Input in tables | Number recognition. You > may want to experiment with whether you also need to tick Tools | > Options... | OpenOffice Writer | Table | Input in tables | Number > format recognition: no-one can explain what this does - not the help > text or even the manual. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker
Thank you, that works -- Peace, Greg ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
