date formats

[wls]

I deal with decades of dated material in large collections. To avoid numeric date ambiguities, I prefer to use YYYY MMM DD date formats everywhere possible. Can that format be set as default for all NeoOffice applications?

Thanks for any help,
wls

[pluby]

There is no setting that I can see that will do what you want. However, one possible way to do this is to set the date format in a new empty document and the make it the "default template" for that document type using the steps in the following NeoWiki article:

http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Editing_Default_Styles_and_Using_Templates#Setting_a_Template_as_the_Default_Template_for_a_Component

Does that help?

Edit: move to NeoOffice Support forum so that other volunteers might see it and add any ideas that they have.

Patrick