At 23:11 26/08/2012 +0200, Ennio Sr wrote: >I would rather prefer that warning be fired when an inappropriate >value is typed in a cell more than in the cell containing the >formula: if a cell is formatted to contain a date, it should not be >possible to put a space in it ... That's fairly easy: o Select the relevant range of cells. o Go to Data | Validity... . o On the Criteria tab, for Allow select Date. o On the Error Alert tab, tick "Show error message when invalid values are entered" and for Action select Stop. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-help@incubator.apache.org