Re: Differences from Excel...

[Scott Ballantyne <sdb ssr com>]

> Dates are just numbers, so this works for dates as well (as long as you
> enter those dates in a way that allows Gnumeric to recognize them as
> dates);
>
> For example enter 2006/2/1 in B4 and 2006/2/3 in B5. Select B4 and B5
> and do the "drag-cell" trick to extend the selection to B4:B20. B20 now
> contains 2006/03/5.

That works, thank you. The specific example I was given (from an Excel
user) allowed you to drag using just one entry. For example:

1/23/04 typed in any cell, then extending this selection supposedly
will increment to 1/24/04, 1/25/04, etc.

But I can live with this :-)

Thanks again,
Scott
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