Cannot enter date as 4-4-25 anymore
Try to use the International standard (ISO) format for entering the date values:
yyyy-mm-dd
Then the libreoffice will able to recognise the numeric (dete) value based on the entered “date string”. Then you can format these real date VALUES as you want.
Cannot enter date as 4-4-25 anymore. Used this exact format for years. Now I can’t do it.
What happened? I hope, it’s not a sudden pain in the fingers, that prevents typing the characters, but rather, something like program update (or what?), after which, you see something (what?) when entering these characters?
And by the way - did you see that you posted your “answer” as a solution? Do you consider that your last sentence resolves your question, so we can consider this done?
@RalphAFlasco This is not a solution to your question. It does not bring more information either. Mentioning OS name, LO version and save format always helps to formulate ad-hoc suggestions.
Please, delete your “non-answer”. Comment under @Zizi64’s post. Explain what you expect after 4-4-25 entry. Without further precision 4-4-25 is simple text. It is considered a date only within “relevant” contexts.
Date format acceptance is driven by Tools>Options, Languages & Locales>General.
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I flagged this third useless text posted as a “solution” as spam. No need to answer to someone who doesn’t want to write their problem normally.