Stop OpenOffice Writer truncating your dates
Software
When you’re have a report due, the last thing you want OpenOffice Writer doing is maddeningly truncating your dates in tables like it’s 1999. Fortunately, after a cup of tea I realised table cells in Writer behave the same way as spreadsheet cells in Calc. By which I mean, the documentation said so.
To fix:
- Click on the offending 02/09/13 cell
- Choose “Number format…” from the Table menu
- Choose “31/12/1999″ from the Format listbox
I’m assuming this would work for LibreOffice too.
