> Of Pat Naughtin >Whenever I upgrade Microsoft Office, >I have to then go through a step by step procedure to alter >the defaults away from Microsoft's prejudgements > about the setting I will use.
Microsoft Office purchased through normal channels is set by default for the region. I have not examined this in detail, but now you bring it up, I will look. I have the latest version of Microsoft Word. The default setting as purchased is 'English (UK)'. > 1 I have to alter page layout to A4. That certainly does not apply here. My version was A4 by default. I am sure that UK versions going back some years were A4 by default. > 2 I have to alter all tab spacings. Ah. Default tab is '1.27 cm'. Not good. > 3 I have to alter all margins on all types of documents. Ah. Top and bottom margins are '2.54 cm'. Left and right margins are '3.17 cm'. Not good. > 5 I have to alter time and date settings to international formats, and, My time and date settings are the UK format (day, month, year), not ISO. > 6 I have to alter the settings that cause the 'typographical quotes'. I don't think I have ever had that problem. > I have now reset MS Word settings � again � and here are some test items. > Imported from Microsoft Word > 'This is "test" to see how this works'. > Typed directly into this posting > 'This is a "test" to see how this works'. That looks fine to me. I see that you are still using ISO-8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-15. Can you see the euro symbol between the square brackets [ � ]?
