corrupted date fields in Office 20o1/Mac 9x

[squeakrad]

My machine crashed a few days ago whie in the middle of a doc and now
the date fields under "Insert date" are corruped - they read like
January 116, 20011199999

Janyary 1111156, 20030000004445
Is there any way ot access these fields and change them?

 

[John McGhie]

Eeeewwww.... That's a hard one.

OK, there's no way I know of to "access" the date formats.

I believe they are stored in the Word Preferences and in the Normal
Template.

If you quit Word then delete com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist from
User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft and your Normal template, then empty your
trash, that will probably bring it right.

If not, come back here: by that time I may have found the real answer for
you.

Cheers

My machine crashed a few days ago whie in the middle of a doc and now
the date fields under "Insert date" are corruped - they read like
January 116, 20011199999

Janyary 1111156, 20030000004445
Is there any way ot access these fields and change them?

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[squeakrad]

Eeeewwww.... That's a hard one.

OK, there's no way I know of to "access" the date formats.

I believe they are stored in the Word Preferences and in the Normal
Template.

If you quit Word then delete com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist from
User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft and your Normal template, then empty your
trash, that will probably bring it right.

If not, come back here: by that time I may have found the real answer for

I deleted all office preferences and the normal template...no luck
what will happen if I re install word??

 

[squeakrad]

i just re installed word

no luck there either

 

[John McGhie]

Did you run the Office Remover utility?

Re-installing has no effect unless you run that, because existing files are
not replaced by a reinstallation.

i just re installed word

no luck there either

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[squeakrad]

Did you run the Office Remover utility?

Re-installing has no effect unless you run that, because existing files are
not replaced by a reinstallation.


On 17/1/05 11:41 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "squeakrad"
<[email protected]> wrote:

no but after mucking abou t soe more, I solved it by changing the DATE
AND TIME under control panels to "U.S." from "CUSTOM" (where it had
been for unknown reasons)...so it was a date problem in control panels
and not in apps.

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah {Blush} I shoulda thought of that

no but after mucking abou t soe more, I solved it by changing the DATE
AND TIME under control panels to "U.S." from "CUSTOM" (where it had
been for unknown reasons)...so it was a date problem in control panels
and not in apps.

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