Have you tried changing the Short Date format in Windows Control Panel |
Regional Options? This makes that date format available to be selected as
the default in Insert | Date and Time.

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"Ted" wrote in message
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Would someone please tell me how to change the date format displaying in
my
Word documents? My dates are showing e.g. February 10, 2006 as
10/02/2006.
I'd like it to display as 02/10/2006.
thanks,
Ted