How to prevent OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc from changing what you input (data, numbers,…)

Question

Basically, I want LibreOffice Calc to do what I tell it, not what it wants.

For example:

• when I input 1.1.12, I want to have 1.1.12 in that cell, not 01.

Answer 1

My issue was currency, properly formatted would change to a much larger number if the numbers entered could represent a date; such as 4.22 becoming $42,482. I discovered that adding a trailing zero solved the problem.