Dear Carlton, You have to change the tab settings in the 'Normal' template � probably in a folder called 'Templates'.
I can't tell you what I think of the Microsoft company every time that I reload MS Word and have to go step by step through putting my computer back (as close as I can) to SI and ISO 8601. Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-10-07 20.24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2002-10-07 01:34:08 Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> It is very difficult to get the headers of one's emails to give ISO 8601. >> Outlook Express always seems to use MMM-DD-YY and am/pm, irrespective of >> one's regional settings. This is the reason why John gets all these e-mails >> with MM-DD-YYYY and am/pm formats from abroad. I have two PC's. One has >> Windows 98, the new one that I use for the Internet has Windows XP. Both >> were set to the Dutch language and metric, YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour format in >> the regional settings. Yet my e-mails produced American date and time; John >> had informed of this. What did I do? Really weird. To start, I set my new >> computer to USA English. Then I changed within that format all the relevant >> settings: system of units, date, time, decimal marker and currency unit. >> And >> it worked! Outlook Express, always going to USA settings, accepted my >> modified ones. Now my e-mail headers show the YYYY-MM-DD and 24 hour >> settings at last. >> >> Han > > That's what I did with (full featured) Outlook at work, and it works > perfectly. Simply change USA-English to what it should be (on the computer > and in real life!) and you get exactly what you need. > > I get cm on Word, but I still can't change the default tabs (for all > documents) to be anything other than half an inch. If anyone has ideas > please send them along. > > Carleton >
