Pages Auto Correction

Okay, I disabled everything under auto correction in the pages preferences. However, it's been bugging me to no end that whenever I type something along the lines of 1/100 it will correct it to a date of "Dec 3, 0099" and when I put down 2/4 it will automatically correct it to 1/2 when I don't WANT that. Also when I try 1/1000 it will put it to 1/999 and I cannot complete a lab report when it keeps messing with my numbers and I cannot stop it!

JackTimmer wrote:
Okay, I disabled everything under auto correction in the pages preferences. However, it's been bugging me to no end that whenever I type something along the lines of 1/100 it will correct it to a date of "Dec 3, 0099" and when I put down 2/4 it will automatically correct it to 1/2 when I don't WANT that. Also when I try 1/1000 it will put it to 1/999 and I cannot complete a lab report when it keeps messing with my numbers and I cannot stop it!
What you describe isn't the result of an auto-correction.
It's the result of the cells auto-formatting.
As it is clearly described in Numbers User Guide, when a cell is in auto-format mode, when we enter two numbers separated by a slash, the entry parser try to convert the entry as a date.
If it can't, it "reduce" the fraction which is the logical mathematical behavior.
The results are linked to the settings in use on the machine
On your machine, 1/100 become "Dec 3, 0099", I get the same behavior on my French system.
On your machine, 2/4 become 1/2. Here, I get 2 avril 2010.
On your machine, 1/1000 become 1/999. Here, I get 27 décembre 0999.
As other helpers wrote, the problem isn't an Apple's one but an user's one.
Define the cell format before entering datas and you will be able to insert what you want.
The true problem strike when the datas are stored in a Tab Separated Values text or in a CSV one.
In such case, we can't change the format before the import process.
There is a workaround : don't import the document directly.
Edit it putting a single quote in front of every value.
It's annoying for true numerical values but it's easier to switch numbers from text to numerical format than to switch dates or reduced fractions to their original state.
I will post a script to edit TSV or CSV files so that fractions remain unchanged.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 8 novembre 2010 10:02:47

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