Why Office 2007 override Windows regional date setting?

Question

I have a problem with a specific user's computer running windows XP SP2 and Office 2007. Although she has the regional date setting in windows to dd/mm/yyyy, her office applications are still reverting to mm/dd/yyyy which is driving her (and me) nuts.

None of our other machines is doing this. Does anyone have a clue as to what to be looking for as the source of this irritating problem?

Answer 1

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I changed the separation symbol from "/" to "-" and oddly enough it worked after that!

Note: you have to change this in XP's regional settings.

So dd-mm-yyyy