Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> A new OOo user is using Calc to store information on volunteers in an
>> organization. Israeli ID numbers are 9 digits in length, such as this:
>> 317907977
>>
>> However, Calc has reformated them to this:
>> 317908000
>>
>> This is a major dataloss for the organization. The person in charge is
>> pissed, and both myself and OOo are to blame. OOo is already coming
>> off their machines (14 desktops, and I think a few laptops as well)
>> and I am tasked with recovering the missing data. Is this possible?
>>
>>
> Well you certainly seem to have something very ODD going on - Calc 3.01
> here doesn't do that, it just displays the original 9-digit number...
No problem here either (version 3.1.0.98.1 on OpenSUSE 11.2-m2). I tried
formatting as both number and text and there was no difference.
How long after entering the data did reformatting occur?
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