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This text refers to program version 4.3  

Date and Numeric Format

Use this setting to ensure your FirstOffice installation displays and prints dates and numbers using your preferred date and number formats.

Internally, FirstOffice features full Year 2000 compatibility: all dates are stored with four-digit years (e.g. "2005"). If you switch on the Century check box, FirstOffice will display the century digits in all dates. However, you do not have to type the extra two century digits, they will be added automatically by FirstOffice. If you enter "100405" in a date field, FirstOffice will change it to "10-04-2005".

In the current version of FirstOffice, the Century check box must be checked for the long dates to appear in back-up and in FirstOffice's different Export files. If the box is not checked, all dates in the exported files will be written as short dates, without the century digits. This will create a problem if you later import a back-up or an export file containing dates from both centuries.

Our recommendation is always to check the Century box. This will make certain that your FirstOffice program will behave correctly, both internally and when you communicate with other applications.

To open this setting, click [Settings] in the Master Control panel or select 'Settings' from the File menu, and then double-click 'Date and Numeric Format' in the 'Settings' list. Consider each option as described above. Then, to save changes and close the window, click the [Save] button. To close the window without saving changes, click the close box.

Whenever a change is made to this setting, its effect will be immediate and universal.

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