Override Regional settings within app

[Chris]

Hi,

I would like to override the regional settings (e.g. for the decimal char
and the thousand separator) within an application. Is this possible and mor
eimportant... how?

Thx,
Christian

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Chris was telling us:
Chris nous racontait que :

Hi,

I would like to override the regional settings (e.g. for the decimal
char and the thousand separator) within an application. Is this

What application?

possible and mor eimportant... how?

These are Windows settings, not Word options.

I guess that through API calls / Registry "hacking" you could change Windows
settings.

You can use this code to read what they are:
MsgBox System.Application.International(wdDecimalSeparator)
MsgBox System.Application.International(wdThousandsSeparator)
but these are Read-Only.

What are you trying to do?
It might be easier in Excel where you can change them within the
application.


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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Chris,

I would like to override the regional settings (e.g. for the decimal char
and the thousand separator) within an application. Is this possible and mor
eimportant... how?

I can only talk about Word, and since you ask in a Word.VBA group, I'll assume
that's the application you're interested in...

In what manner do you want to override these settings? Please be more
specific, and mention the versions of Word and Windows.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Chris]

Sorry, I used the wrong group for that. I have already sent it to
....vb.winapi

Christ