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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Dates in spreadsheet pasted into word processing or presentation document are incorrect. | ||||||
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| Product: | Calc | Reporter: | ferd913 <sullivan> | ||||
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues | ||||
| Version: | OOo 1.1.1 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
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Description
ferd913
2004-08-02 22:53:52 UTC
Sounds like the spreadsheet's OLE content is corrupted. Hi, tried it using OOo1.1.2 on Linux and can't reproduce with the given information. Please give us a step by step description on how to double your problem. A document with the source data and the target document with pasted values would also be fine. Frank I also can't reproduce the problem with a new spreadsheet. But it certainly occurs with an existing one. I can't figure out how update with an attachment. I'll email the spreadsheet and word processor to document to fst@openoffice.org. Hi, got your files, will attach the calc to this Issue later. There seems to be a bug in Issuezilla which prevents people who are not owners of an Issue to attach files on it. Now let's start with your problem. This is caused by the non default Null date for the Calc file you've send. Check this under Tools Options Spreadsheet Calculate Date. This is set to 01/01/1904. AFAIK this is from Excel to compensate a date bug present since Excel2.0 making 1900 a leapyear but it never was one. So changing the Zero date may workaround the problem. Frank Created attachment 16937 [details]
Bugdoc with zero date set to 01/01/1900
Hi Niklas, Eike and I talked about copying the zero date with the Calc OLE. Therefore I set this one to P4 OOoLater Frank I agree that the problem is the zero date. However, changing the zero date isn't really a workaround. Yes, that makes the dates match between spreadsheet and other applications. However, it also makes the dates imported from Excel wrong in both places. What I don't understand is that if I create a new Excel document and import it, I don't have the problem. Is it possible that this is happening because my Excel document was created with a really old version of Excel? It's possible, but I can't remember how long ago the document originated (but it's at most about 4 years). Hi, yeeeppp, this would be the case I think. If you change the zero date under tools options spreadsheet if you are in the writer document, you do not have the shifting problem. But make sure this is set only for this document or just use formatted text from paste special to insert the clipboard content. In this case you do not get an Calc OLE but the data is correct as it is now just text. Frank I don't see a direct way to change the base date just for a document - but here's what I did that seems to be ok, so I think this is a workaround. 1. Open spreadsheet with 2004 base date. 2. Create word processor doc. 3. Set base date to 2004 (which seems to change it globally). 4. Paste in the spreadsheet. 5. Change base date back to default, so that other documents aren't munged. Now the dates are ok. I closed the documents and reopened, and the dates are correct. Thanks for the help! Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org". |