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From: jmorriso@fs0.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Excel Help woes, International bug
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Date: 7 Jul 90 04:45:30 GMT
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I mentioned earlier that I couldn't get help to work in Excel. Well,
here's the dirt from Microsoft:

I would press F1 or select Help Index from the menu, and the disk would
churn a little, but nothing would pop up. Microsoft told me that there
was a bug in ther International section of the control panel. To get help
working, you need to have it set for  just about everything American:
Country = US, Language = English(American) Keyboard = US. Even then
it is reported to be flakey. Heaven forbid anyone should want any other
settings! I guess the rest of the world isn't important enough to beta
test. If you are having problems with Excel, or other programs
that use this information you should go back to the defaults and then
change as little as possible to what you'd like it to be. The
girl at Microsoft seemed to focus on the list seperator: it should be a 
comma; setting it to international English gives you a period.

I managed to set some things back to sensible formats instead of American
style: stuff like metric, ansi dates, 24 h time.

As you say in America: 'Have a nice day!' :-)
I say, old chap, must be going. Do come for tea some time,

Ta ta,
John Paul