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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / December 2004list separator for international use?
In the numbering group a poster reported that fields like this {IF {=MOD({PAGE} , 2 )} = 1 {PAGE}} failed when the document was opened on a French-locale system. The failure was a syntax error, apparently because the system expected a semi-colon as list separator. Jean-Guy Marcil suggested a solution involving macros to rebuild the fields when the document was opened. This sounds unpleasant to construct and use. Is there a simple solution for this? Perhaps there is an "international list separator character", or a compatibility option, or something? Bob S Hi Bob, > In the numbering group a poster reported that fields like this > {IF {=MOD({PAGE} , 2 )} = 1 {PAGE}} [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > "international list separator character", or a compatibility option, > or something? I'm afraid not. If all people who might work with the document can't be assumed to have the same Windows settings, then the adjustment must be made in the fields of the Word document. An alternative to a macro that has to work through each and every field would be to define a custom document property or a document variable and store the field separator in that. Insert DocProperty or DocVariable fields in place of the separator characters into the field codes. Then the change would need to be made in only one place; either the user could do it, or a macro could. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Internationalization would certainly be much easier if Word had a simple field code that evaluated to the local list separator character. Codes that evaluated to the local decimal separator, thousands separator, etc. would also occasionally be useful. Also one that evaluates to the proper type of space for numeric picture switches. Bob S >Hi Bob, > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question >or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Bob, You won't hear any argument from me on that point! > Internationalization would certainly be much easier if Word had a > simple field code that evaluated to the local list separator > character. Codes that evaluated to the local decimal separator, > thousands separator, etc. would also occasionally be useful. Also one > that evaluates to the proper type of space for numeric picture > switches. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Amen!! Klaus "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:VA.0000a060.00417524@speedy... > Hi Bob, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question > or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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