Open Office's Terminal Stupidity

Open Office's Terminal Stupidity

I am afraid to state that (for fear of it getting worse) but can anything be worse than this: Open Office is programmed to format anything as dates and it is impossible to get away from that. Paste text containing "5/8 in" into a cell. Edit out or replace " in" with an empty string. It becomes 12/30/99. Edit the cell and add an equal sign in front of "5/8". Still the date! Even if the cell is formatted as a Number. Why and what for? But if you enter brand new "=5/8" into another cell, it is 0.625... Did they even test before releasing? Do they have unit tests? Rhetoric question, of course they did not test and do not have any formal testing. Isn't open source world grand, where you do not need to bother about testing?

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