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 the text 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.

In single-user systems, whenever you make a change in this setting, its effect will be immediate and universal.

In multi-user systems, you can change the Date and Numbers setting, but the changes will not take effect until the server has been restarted. You can also have different date and numeric formats on a particular client machine. To choose date and numeric formats for a client machine, use the Client Date and Numeric Format setting in the User Settings module. These formats will be used on that machine irrespective of the Person logging in. You will need to quit FirstOffice and restart on that client machine only (not the server) for the change to take effect.

If a particular client machine has its own date and number formats, they will be used on screen and in reports. However, numbers and dates will be printed in documents using the formats chosen in Company Date and Numeric Formats setting, to retain corporate identity.

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