Specify how dates and numbers appear in South Asian documents

Microsoft Office Word 2003

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  1. On the Insert menu, click Date and Time.
  2. Under Available formats, click one of the South Asian formats.

ShowSelect a South Asian number format for page numbers

  1. On the Insert menu, click Page Numbers, and then click Format.
  2. Click the arrow to the right of the Number format box, and click one of the South Asian formats.

ShowSelect a South Asian number format for numbered lists

  1. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • To change the format of sequentially numbered lists, click the Numbered tab.

    • To change the format of numbers used in outlines, click the Outline Numbered tab.

  3. Click one of the displayed formats, or click Customize to access a list of more format options, click the arrow to the right of the Number style box, and click one of the South Asian formats.

    The separator used in some number formats— for example, the closing parenthesis in an alphabetic sequence ( a) ) is a Western character. To change the font of a numbered format you must change individually the South Asian letter and the Western separator.

ShowSpecify a Western or South Asian calendar

  1. On the Insert menu, click Date and Time.
  2. In the Language box, click the South Asian language you want for month names.
  3. In the Calendar type box, click Western.

    Note  For some languages, such as Thai, Microsoft Word automatically assigns a calendar type, and the Calendar type box becomes unavailable.

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