{"id":20936,"date":"2017-04-16T22:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:06:40","slug":"microsoft-word-date-format-english-canada-compared-to-english-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/microsoft-word-date-format-english-canada-compared-to-english-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Word:  date format:  English (Canada) compared to English (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring Business English, date format is of interest.  The tutor shows a date format available in English (United States), but perhaps not in English (Canada), in Microsoft Word 2007.<\/h1>\n<p>In my <a href=\"?p=20911\">April 14 post<\/a> I mention that I prefer the date format<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">April 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p>because it gives no chance of misunderstanding.  However, among the English (Canada) date formats offered, the closest seems to be<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">16 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking Insert, then Date &#038; Time, the dialogue box that emerges offers a Language choice.  Clicking the dropdown arrow, one choice is English (United States).  Selecting that, the available date formats change to include April 16, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring Business English, date format is of interest. The tutor shows a date format available in English (United States), but perhaps not in English (Canada), in Microsoft Word 2007. In my April 14 post I mention that I prefer the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/microsoft-word-date-format-english-canada-compared-to-english-us\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Word:  date format:  English (Canada) compared to English (US)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073,1009,2254,2253],"tags":[2260,2257,2259],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-skills","category-home-computer-use","category-microsoft-word","category-word-processors","tag-date-format-day-written-month-year","tag-how-to-change-the-date-format-microsoft-word-2007","tag-microsoft-word-date-format-english-canada-compared-to-english-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20948,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}