Word 2003 Text Reversal

[Roy Gracious]

Hi:
Recenlty (since the last 2-3 weeks) users of our application have
started noticing text being reversed in RTF documents every other time the
RTF template is launched.
e.g. pre-filled date bookmark fields will be displayed correctly in the
MM/DD/YYYY format the first time the RTF document is launched and the next
time the same RTF document is launched the date will be displayed in the
YYYY/DD/MM format. This happens to phone numbers, some large text fields.
No code changes have been made to our template.

Interestingly this doesn't happen when I use the normal.dot file in place of
our template.

Could this issue be related to the following
security patch Security Update for Word 2003 (KB917334)?

Does anyone else know why this is happening?
FYI, we have been using the application for years and in only the last
couple of weeks has this problem been noticed.

PS: I have also posted this in microsoft.public.word.word6-7macros

Thanks,
Roy.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Hi Roy,

Check the language settings in your template? Note language settings are
text specific, like font formatting, so you can have different language
settings for adjacent letters in a word. Compare those to the settings in a
document generated from your normal.dot template.

A great way to insert text is to put a field (usually CreateDate) in your
document template. You can control the display of the day with field
switches. See http://addbalance.com/word/datefields1.htm for information on
the different kinds of datefields and how to format them.

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