Microsoft KB Archive/36512

International Default Values Taken from System File

PSS ID Number: Q36512 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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Microsoft Word for the Macintosh takes certain default values, or operating parameters, from the System file. If the System file has been localized for a given country, these values reflect that localization.

The default values include the following:


 * Date format
 * Time format
 * Negative sign convention (minus sign vs. parentheses)
 * Decimal point character
 * Thousands separator
 * List separator
 * Currency symbol
 * Metric/English measurement system
 * Keyboard information

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