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eno tsin - 29 Mar 2005 07:59 GMT

This is exactly what happened:

I used MS Office X and everything has been alright
One day all the date / time began to display in German
I brought MS Office 2004 and installed it
Same goes, all date / time display in German.

My Mac has locale / language etc all set properly to English.
Anybody has any idea?

Thx
Eno

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Paul Berkowitz - 30 Mar 2005 19:04 GMT

On 3/28/05 10:59 PM, in article
1112079571.332610.11520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "eno tsin"
<enotsin@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I used MS Office X and everything has been alright
> One day all the date / time began to display in German
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> My Mac has locale / language etc all set properly to English.
> Anybody has any idea?

Entourage uses the settings in System Preferences/International/Formats (in
Panther. In Jaguar, I think it's International/Date/Time.) Make sure the
formats are set to United States, United Kingdom or some other
English-language format.

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
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eno tsin - 31 Mar 2005 06:49 GMT

Thanks for your reply.
As I pointed out i did set the locale under international / format in
perferences to a "non-german" region (Hong Kong) as I have always been.
And just one day it started to show things in german.

Just now i did 2 things and dates go back to English again

1. I deleted dutch from langages selection in the Preferences /
International section
2. I select region to somewhere else and then select it back to HK
again

Now it works, thanks!
Ps. I suspect there's a bug here

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