Ron, I sincerely apologize for laughing so hard at your confusion. That RTFM stands for Read The F’ing Manual, but it can refer to any type of documentation. It is a frequent reply given to guys who should know what they’re doing in the first place, and should know how to find the answer in the second place (in the F’n manual, of course). But that clearly doesn’t apply in this case. Nevertheless, RTFM is an instruction to peruse the documentation. In this case, I’m referring to the Help file, which can be accessed from the main menu bar under “Help.” So click on Help, and select OpenOffice Help in the menu.
Once that window opens, there’s a dropdown field in the upper left corner. Make sure that says “OpenOffice Calc,” or whichever program you need help with. While you’re there, click the up/down arrow button on the right end of the text field and see what other categories of help are offered there. Make sure to put “OpenOffice Calc” back in the box before you leave it. Below that dropdown field is another box labeled “Search term.” Click in that and type “date formats.” Read that selection list carefully: There are two different choices for “date formats.” You want the second one. Just double-click on it. You’ll find more than you ever wanted to know about them on the right side of the window. You’ll find that Right-click, Format Cells… dialog offers a LOT of flexibility. But you’ll have to read that Help file page in order to know what options are available and how to implement them. If you get lost again, please write back. And again, I apologize for making light of your confusion. …but dammit, that was funny. Regards, Jim > On May 18, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Ron Patterson <a.b...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > Thanks Doug, I searched AOO and could not locate the RTFM. How might one > find this celebrated gift to naifs? > > > On 5/18/2016 5:31 PM, Doug wrote: >> >> On 05/18/2016 06:12 PM, Ron Patterson wrote: >>> Thanks Jim - that makes sense. But what is RTFM please? >>> >> Read The Fine Manual. "Fine" is a euphemism. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
