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<blockquote data-quote="jpdemers" data-source="post: 1573818" data-attributes="member: 117810"><p>OK, here's a work-around for Mavericks (and probably other OS-X flavors as well):</p><p> 1. In the "Language & Region" preferences, click Advanced... and select Dates.</p><p> 2. Click on each year "element" and hit delete to remove the year entirely from each date format.</p><p> 3. Type in "2014", rather than dragging up a year "element" from the selections below. </p><p></p><p>You're now good until 2015 rolls around. An annual tweak is still annoying, but it's not a huge P.I.T.A. Just remember that everything on the Mac, not just MS Word, will be hosed come January 1 if you don't tweak the preferences. I've put an annual reminder in my calendar.</p><p></p><p>What's weird is that (a) it worked fine for a long time, under Lion, Mt. Lion, and, until very recently, under Mavericks, and (b) it still works fine on my MacBook, which is pretty much the same system and software across the board. Something happens to trigger the issue, and we need to figure out how to undo whatever the heck it is that happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jpdemers, post: 1573818, member: 117810"] OK, here's a work-around for Mavericks (and probably other OS-X flavors as well): 1. In the "Language & Region" preferences, click Advanced... and select Dates. 2. Click on each year "element" and hit delete to remove the year entirely from each date format. 3. Type in "2014", rather than dragging up a year "element" from the selections below. You're now good until 2015 rolls around. An annual tweak is still annoying, but it's not a huge P.I.T.A. Just remember that everything on the Mac, not just MS Word, will be hosed come January 1 if you don't tweak the preferences. I've put an annual reminder in my calendar. What's weird is that (a) it worked fine for a long time, under Lion, Mt. Lion, and, until very recently, under Mavericks, and (b) it still works fine on my MacBook, which is pretty much the same system and software across the board. Something happens to trigger the issue, and we need to figure out how to undo whatever the heck it is that happens. [/QUOTE]
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