LibO on Windows XP. When you open the Format Cells dialog for a cell you have not previously formatted, the 'Format' is preselected as "General", and the 'Decimal places' is preselected as 0. This is contradictory: the General format has no defined number of decimal places, and will display as many decimal places as the value has that is in the cell (up to a point). Furthermore this presentation may lead the user to think that he/she can set the decimal places to zero just by pressing Return on this dialog presented in this state, but this, of course, does not set the decimal places. I would suggest that this dialog contains a blank value for 'Decimal places' when 'Format' is "General".
reproduced in 3.3.4 and 3.5.1 on Fedora 64 bit and Windows XP 32 bit Changing version to 3.3.4 as most early reproducible
*** Bug 70316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Retested in LO 4.3.3.2 on Debian Linux: issue is still present.
Laurent Balland-Poirier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0db37d785311aa2294f60b750fce4dadff6c75e0 tdf#44399 Do not display 0 decimal for General format It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Laurent Balland-Poirier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=26b3ca54aff24c34718c572675ad72b9687b3adb&h=libreoffice-5-0 tdf#44399 Do not display 0 decimal for General format It will be available in 5.0.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.