I flagged this post as "not an answer":
I had the same problem as Dan Dyer. I followed slesker's instructions and now my problem is solved.
Now, to the openoffice developpers: I really appreciate your efforts creating the fantastic tool that openoffice is, but seriously, this stupid behaviour of automatically changing "1 Nov 2011" into "01/11/2011" and the option to disable it being completely hidden where you wouldn't look for it (I have been using text editors for more than 20 years and yet I spent more than an hour looking for this option and I couldn't find it), is a bit stupid. I suggest you put it where all the other automatic changes are, for example in one of the tabs under tools/autocorrect options Thanks!
It was marked as helpful, but not deleted. I don't want to be nit-picky, I wouldn't have even cared about an "invalid" flag here :)
All I'd like to know is: What are the reasons for not deleting it?
Let's see the content:
I had the same problem as Dan Dyer. I followed slesker's instructions and now my problem is solved.
→ This is superfluous. We delete those all the time, and @slesker's answer is accepted and upvoted five times; it does not need an additional "This really works" comment.
Now, to the openoffice developpers: I really appreciate your efforts creating the fantastic tool that openoffice is, but seriously, this stupid behaviour […] and the option to disable it being completely hidden where you wouldn't look for it […] is a bit stupid.
→ Are we the OpenOffice developers? This sentence basically says: "It's stupid", and we gain nothing useful from this answer.
I suggest you put it where all the other automatic changes are, for example in one of the tabs under tools/autocorrect options Thanks!
→ Again, who is being addressed? The average reader who just wants to solve the problem, or the OpenOffice developers?
