Regional Settings with Date

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SuperNashwan2@hotmail.com - 19 Nov 2007 23:01 GMT

I wonder if anyone can help me with this as it's driving me mad.

I have Excel 2003 running under Vista Home Premium and everything was
fine until a few days ago. I have spreadsheets with dates entered in
the following format:

Date: 14-Mar-01 - so when I enter 16/11/07 it appears in the cell as
16-Nov-07. The locale is: English (United Kingdom)

A couple of days ago I installed a program which needs to change my
regional settings to US while it is running and then changes them back
when I exit. Everything works fine and all the regional settings are
changed back to UK after closing this software.

However, in Excel, all new sheets now open up with the date set to
English (US). Even if I format the cell to English (UK), I canot enter
the dates as I did before. If I now enter 16/11/07 it just stays in
this format. I have to enter the date in US format, 11/16/07 before it
will change to 16-Nov-07, even thought the cell is set to UK format.

I am sure the software I installed has changed some variable but how
do I change it back?

Thank you.

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SuperNashwan2@hotmail.com - 19 Nov 2007 23:18 GMT

Just to add, this only happens on my user account, all other user
accounts are fine and you can enter the date as 16/11/07 and it comes
up as 16-Nov-07. It seems all settings on Excel have been changed to
US even though my regional settings are set to UK.

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Ron Rosenfeld - 19 Nov 2007 23:53 GMT

>Just to add, this only happens on my user account, all other user
>accounts are fine and you can enter the date as 16/11/07 and it comes
>up as 16-Nov-07. It seems all settings on Excel have been changed to
>US even though my regional settings are set to UK.

When you write "regional settings", are you referring to the settings in Excel,
or to the settings in the Windows Control Panel Regional settings.

The behaviour you describe is what would happen if the Windows Control Panel
Regional settings got set to US settings (or the short-date format, anyway).
--ron

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SuperNashwan2@hotmail.com - 20 Nov 2007 18:50 GMT

> >Just to add, this only happens on my user account, all other user
> >accounts are fine and you can enter the date as 16/11/07 and it comes
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> Regional settings got set to US settings (or the short-date format, anyway).
> --ron

Sorry, the regional settings I referred to are the windows settings,
under Control Panel. I have tried changing this to US and back to UK
again but it makes no difference. Both the long date and short date
are set correctly to what I want under Control Panel, Regional
Settings but in Excel I still have to type the date in back-to-front
in order for it to recognise it as a date.

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