Re: import data from openoffice Calc

HI Adrian,

Thanks for pointing out the reporting bug information about my problem. I
have tried your suggestion and it works great. But this approach can only
solve one part of my problem, because I also need to open an existing db
table through Clac, edit some tuples, and then save it as a new table. For
this case, I can not convert my original "date" data to text (because it
will become an integer after converting as you mentioned). Thanks again.

LW

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:

>
> ----- "Le-shin Wu" <leshin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > Thanks for your information. I think your suggestion will be my last
> > approach, if I really can not find a way to solve my problem.
> > Actually, I tried to format the cells type (the "date" column in my
> > sheet) in Calc as "Date" before I copy and past, but somehow it works
> > for only once. This also confused me. Thanks again.
> >
> > LW
> >
>
> Once the column is formatted as "Date" the underlying value will be the
> integer value. I did a little test and found the following. If I
> preformatted a column as "Text" and then entered date strings for example
> "12/01/09" it stayed a string when cut and pasted. If I just started
> entering a date string in a column the column would become a "Date" column.
> Changing the formatting to "Text" would change the date strings "12/01/09"
> to the underlying integer 40147. Any new date strings entered however would
> stay as "12/01/09". Hope this helps.
>
>
> Adrian Klaver
> aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net
>