[mdlug] More OOCalc math wonkiness

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Drew wrote:
 >      The Beta version was what was on the Fedora Core disk, and I

Ouch! Mark one big one against Fedora Core, unless the whole thing was a
pre-release distro.

> hadn't noticed that it was Beta - the indicating text was nearly
> the same color as the background on the startup logo.
> 
> Henceforth I'm using the OO 2.0 that's on my Kanotix image. 
> However I have discovered that I can't just load in the old
> spreadsheets with it; somehow or other they still behave in a Beta
> fashion if I do. It seems it's necessary to re-type in everything by 
> hand in order to get the benefits of non-Beta...

One slightly easier method might be as follows: Open the offending
document and a new document in adjacent windows. In the bad one select
Tools->Options...->OpenOffice.org Calc->View->Display and check the bx
labeled "Formulas". Although this seems to be a global setting it
doesn't seem to affect other open windows. And no great shakes if it
does, you can always change the view setting back when you are done.