[Solved] Language configuration and date format

[landsker]

I have looked everywhere I can think of, both here and in the help files, but I cannot find how to change the date format so that for ALL OOO modules it is set to the European standard of dd:mm:yyyy, rather than the American way of putting the month first.
Advice appreciated.

[Hagar Delest]

Please read the Survival Guide for the forum. I've split the topic, don't post after a tutorial please.

What's the setting in the Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages for the Locale setting field?

[landsker]

Sorry about the faux-pas!
On the basis that a picture tells a story, here is a screenshot.

[landsker]

I've sussed it - tick the box for decimal separator key seems to do it - is that right?

[Hagar Delest]

Looks fine.

Make sure that the style for the paragraph (in Writer) or for the cells (in Calc) is set to English (UK) and not English (USA). For that, open the Stylist (F11), right click the Default paragraph/cell style, click Modify and go to the Fonts tab.

[landsker]

Thank you very much for your prompt help.
When OOO V3 is out I see it will open M.S.Office 2007 .docx types of file without having to use an odf converter.
This will be a big plus as I have and receive, MS word in both .doc & docx formats. I'm sure Microsoft introduced the new file formats just to make it difficult for OOO users!

[Hagar Delest]

tick the box for decimal separator key seems to do it - is that right?

Rather strange but why not.

When OOO V3 is out I see it will open M.S.Office 2007 .docx types of file without having to use an odf converter.
This will be a big plus as I have and receive, MS word in both .doc & docx formats.

You can have a look at the 3.0 beta version, not to be used for production but you can use it as a converter.

I'm sure Microsoft introduced the new file formats just to make it difficult for OOO users!

It's part of their strategy plan I guess: make the users believe they can use an 'open' format (which is not) and lock them up with that file format. Note that MS has worked to make OOXML an ISO standard (but appeals in progress) and that they won't use it for MS Office 2007!!

Since your issue seems to be fixed, I tag it as solved, post again and remove that tag if there is still a problem.

[Caracalla]

Why don't you set your locale setting to Spanish?