I have made a two column table with information in both columns and then saved. On restarting all information in the second column has changed to the numeral 0. Any idea why?
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Posting twice is useless, counter-productive and harmful because you could receive cross-answers which may be contradictory without the possibility to clearly detect this situation.
@MikeHughes, Original file was a .doc(x)? See the accepted answer to a similar question. There is a bug report: tdf#131025.
Uncheck Table>Number Recognition.
This feature was added to offer a limited spreadsheet function in Writer to avoid inserting an OLE object, but IMHO it proves rather harmful for the vast majority of Writer tables which are supposed to contain text.
If you saved native (.odt), your data is still there and you should be able to recover it.
Search the site for equivalent questions. Some propose tricks in case you don’t automatically recover.
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