Write a date into the cell, e.g. 2011-09-05. Then format it to show the day name in addition, e.g. NN YYYY-MM-DD. You will likely see ### in the cell, indicating that the column is to small to show the value 'Mon 2011-09-05'. Now enable wrapping for that cell. Expected behavior: The date is wrapped to Mon 2011-09-05 Seen behavior: No wrapping. Another example: Use the formula =TODAY(). Again you will see ### and wrapping does not work. Suggestion: Wrap dates and times, if the format code contains a blank. Wrap position should be that blank. Such wrapping was done in OOo before version 3.3.
A date is a date serial number, just formatted special to display the date. Numeric values, however formatted, are not wrapped in cells but displayed as ### instead if larger. Earlier OOo versions wrapped also numeric values, which was a bug (you don't expect a 14 digits number being wrapped after 11 digits) and got fixed. Introducing line breaking for formatted date/time numeric values IMHO is overkill. But of course, if someone provided a nice patch ...
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This is a valid Enhancement request (but IMHO with very low importance) I see, OOo 1.1.5 indeed breaks long numbers. At least since LibO 3.3.3 that bug is fixed.
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Comment 7 confirms validity of request. Moving to NEW.
A far better approach IMHO is to automatically widen the column after input (only!) if it is too narrow and was not yet set to a fixed width by the user. Which also Gnumeric and Excel do. Both also do not wrap numeric and date display strings if wrap is enabled, so we'd display significantly different content if we implemented wrapping here.
*** Bug 109119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 59997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***