Hi Severin I retried this
It may be the solution, Select text change language and auto insert the date and when swapping from US to Aus English the format did change. Brian On 01/07/2012, at 10:56 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi Severin, Just another thought, does ensuring you have Language English (Aus) - Australian - change the date format? (May have to select all text before changing Language setting.) Word > Menu > Tools > Language… > English (AUS) Brian On 01/07/2012, at 10:22 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Ronni, my problem is that none of the Available Formats (your 2.) are what I want, they are all US not Australian. This is despite Australian being set and looking good in Date & Time under System Preferences, Office11/Word will not Autralianise. Excel is fine, you can set a custom dated format, but not that I can get to in Word. Thanks for the detailed response! Severin On 01/07/2012, at 4:46 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Severin, > > When you insert a date and a time into your document, and you try to set a > default date and time format by clicking Default (on the Insert menu, click > Date And Time), the format that you choose will revert to the first setting > under Available Formats. > > To work around this problem, use an AutoText entry and assign the formatted > date setting to a keystroke combination. > To do this, follow these steps: > 1. On the Insert menu, click Date And Time. > 2. Under Available Formats, select the format that you want, click to select > the Update Automatically check box, and then click OK. > 3. Select the resulting field, point to AutoText on the Insert menu, and > then click New. > 4. Give the entry a name, and then click OK. > 5. On the Tools menu, click Customize, and then click Shortcut. > 6. Under Categories, select AutoText. Under AutoText, select the name that > you called your date AutoText entry. > 7. Put the insertion point in the Press New Shortcut Key input box, type in > a keystroke combination, and then click Assign. > 8. Click OK. > > > To set a default date and time for only the current session of Word for Mac, > follow these steps: > 1. On the Insert menu, click Date and Time. > 2. Under Available Formats, select a format. > 3. Click Default, and then click OK. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.4 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 01/07/2012, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > >> Brian, I am set to Australia and all the displayed sample formats are as >> required. The "custom" box is greyed out. Word11 is obviously overriding >> this setting. >> Severin >> >> On 01/07/2012, at 12:38 AM, Brian Risbey wrote: >> >>> Hi Severin, >>> >>> Have you gone to OSX system settings, - in the top Personal row? >>> Look in 'Language & Texts' tab >>> you will now see 'Formats' tab at top 3rd one across >>> the a region box, you can select a country - Australia, mine is set to >>> custom. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> On 30/06/2012, at 5:02 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: >>> >>> The menu item Insert/Date and Time uses US format. i.e. today is 6/30/12 >>> not 30/6/12. In Excel you can customise the format but I can not find >>> where to do it in Word. I am sure it can be done. Help please. >>> Severin Crisp >>> I have taken a long while to get used to the palettes in Word now being in >>> the menu bar, but have come to like it. >>> ________________________________________________________ >>> Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP >>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. >>> Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >>> email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ________________________________________________________ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. 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