[AccessD] Regional Settings Problem

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 11:32:00 CST 2008


Do you perhaps have defined Formats for the field on the form that
might be overriding the User Setting?

GK

On 3/3/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> I have a dealer in Brazil who brought something to my attention.  In Brazil
> they use the comma as a decimal point and a period to separate thousands.
>
> When I set my regional settings to Portuguese(Brazil) I can enter fractions
> like 2,123.  But the comma (their decimal point) appears whether I press
> comma or period.  That's probably OK.
>
> After the field is updated it shows as 2,123 but if I select the field it
> displays as 2.123.  So I can enter fractional quantities using the comma and
> it displays correctly after update.  The only time the period shows is when
> an already entered number in a field is selected.
>
> But this is causing him some trouble.  What am I missing on this Windows
> Regional Setting thing?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
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