Hi I have Microsoft Word 2007 installed on a Windows XP (SP3) computer. The regional settings in Windows are set to English (South Africa) and all my default language settings are also set the English (South Africa). When I add a default header to a document that contains a date content control, it insists on displaying it in the US format - MMMM dd, yyyy. Is there any way that I can change to format of this date to display dd MMMM yyyy? I have also changed the Header language once the header has been inserted, but no text typed to English (South Africa) , but the date format remains stubbornly US. The only way I can change this at the moment, is to select the date content control and then use the Insert; Date and Time and change the language back to English (South Africa) and insert the date. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to permanently set these content controls to an English format other than English (US). Thanks Heather
Go to the Control Panel>Regional and Language Options and click on the Date tab and set the Short and Long date formats to those that you desire. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Fev" wrote in message news:0da5ef78-bc39-4f2c-ab1b-50e36676fc68@m32g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi > I have Microsoft Word 2007 installed on a Windows XP (SP3) computer. > The regional settings in Windows are set to English (South Africa) and > all my default language settings are also set the English (South > Africa). When I add a default header to a document that contains a > date content control, it insists on displaying it in the US format - > MMMM dd, yyyy. Is there any way that I can change to format of this > date to display dd MMMM yyyy? I have also changed the Header language > once the header has been inserted, but no text typed to English (South > Africa) , but the date format remains stubbornly US. The only way I > can change this at the moment, is to select the date content control > and then use the Insert; Date and Time and change the language back to > English (South Africa) and insert the date. > > I would appreciate any suggestions on how to permanently set these > content controls to an English format other than English (US). > > Thanks > Heather
