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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Turning Number Recognition On or Off in Tables</title>
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      <bookmark_value>numbers; automatic recognition in text tables</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>tables; number recognition</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>tables; date formatting</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>table cells; date formatting</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>dates;formatting automatically in tables</bookmark_value>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155179" role="paragraph">$[officename] can automatically recognize numbers or dates that you enter into a table cell, converting them from text to an appropriate number format. Use <menuitem>Table - Number Format</menuitem> to change the display of the entered value.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149966" role="paragraph">To enable or disable this feature, do one of the following:</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155919" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>Table - Number Recognition</menuitem>.</paragraph>
              <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id531605970858214">When this feature is on, a check mark is displayed in front of the <menuitem>Number Recognition</menuitem> command.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id781605970689063">This feature applies globally to all tables in all documents. When enabled, typing a date or number into a table cell will result in automatic formatting. Enabling and disabling this feature does not change existing data formatting.</paragraph>
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