Problem with autoformat in Numbers

When I type some numeric values in Numbers, like for instance "0.1", I get them autoformatted to time format: "00:01". It happens with decimal numbers with one or two decimal digits: "0.23" becomes "00:23", etc. If I change format from "Automatic" to "Numbers" after this auto-conversion, I get the complete date: "05/06/2012 00:23:00" instead of the original "0.23" value. So the only way to get the numeric value as I want it is to change the format BEFORE I enter the value. But this can be a problem if I have to import several TAB-formatted text files, because I have to edit all wrong cells one by one after importing. Strangely, I haven't found anybody reporting this kind of problem. Any idea what is happening and how to solve it? Thanks

"Open a blank numbers document.
Pick a cell and enter the number 12
On the inspector cell format dialog select % (percent) \\ my default was automatic setting
I see the cell contents change from 12 to 1,200% ( and it is left justified in the cell after formatting)"
I see the display of the contents change from 12 (aligned right) to 1,200% (aligned right). This is correct.
"Now change the format to date (and time)..."
The displayed value remains "1,200%" (but aligned left).
Interpretation:
When the number 12 is entered, the display and the entry box both show "12"
"Per cent," literally translated, means "per hundred;" a "percentage" is a conventional way of expressing a fraction: n% equals n in 100, or n/100.
"Twelve per cent" is not "12." It is 12/100, which can be expressed as a decimal number as 0.12.
When you change the format of the cell containing 12, you do not change the value in that cell.
12 is still 12, but now it is being displayed as 'a number divided by 100'. The number, divided by 100, that will produce the value 12 is 1200. "12" is "1200%"
So when the cell is formatted as Percentage, the display in the cell changes to "1200%". But the display in the entry box changes as well, to 1200%.
"Now change the format to date and I see, and you too I hope, will see the same number 1,200% only right justified after formatting"
I see that value, but it is aligned left, which indicates to me that Numbers is 'seeing' 1200% in the entry box as Text. The Automatic alignment for Text is left. I suspect Numbers attempts to interpret the value in the entry box as a date and time value, but fails due to the percent sign. Without the sign, 1200 can be interpreted as a Date and Time (December 25, 1199, 00:00:00); with the sign, even though the sign is applied by (a previous) formatting, it can't, and falls back to a text interpretation.
"12" can also be interpreted by Numbers as a date. Setting the format of a cell containing 12 to Date and Time produces: January 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM
If that cell is then set to "Percentage", the date remains, but alignment shifts for the default right (for numbers and Date & Time values) to left (for text). Looks like the same thing going on—the content is being read as text, the text can't be interpreted as the type of value required for the formatting to apply, so the value is treated as text, and the default alignment for text is applied.
"I (am) not sure how I can make use of entering the number twelve and change the format to percent to get 1,200%. I (would) like the outcome to be 12 percent."
If you want the outcome to be 12%, then you need to enter 0.12 (12 hundredths), or you need to enter 12%. The former will require your changing the format to Percentage; the latter will be recognized as a percent, and automatically formatted to show percentage.
If you still consider this a bug, you should Provide Numbers Feedback, and make a bug report. You'll find Provide xxx Feedback in the Application menu (in Numbers, the "Numbers" menu) of current Apple Software.
Regards,
Barry

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