Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Russian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Jul 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Serbian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: N/A
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	16 Aug 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Slovenian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Jul 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Spanish	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Jul 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Swedish	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Jul 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Thai	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Aug 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Professional	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Turkish	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below
Last Updated:	18 Jul 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office Professional 2000 version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Professional, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Access 2000 Dates can be input and displayed in both predefined and custom formats via an input mask. Predefined formats include a short date format, which forces users to enter 2-digit dates. A custom format can be created to limit date entry to 4-digit years. If an input mask is not used (the default behavior), dates can be entered in 2- or 4-digit formats. 01/01/0100 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in 2- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant PowerPoint 2000 Dates are stored and calculated in a 4-digit format. System dependent Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word and PowerPoint, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider the instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a 2-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," any 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which will be available in April. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915 is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an issue can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage issues in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with other noncompliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Chinese - Simplified	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Chinese - Traditional	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Czech	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Danish	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Dutch	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: English	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	19 May 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers’ Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: English Australian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: English British	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Finnish	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: French	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: German	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Greek	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	25 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Hungarian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Italian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Korean	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.

Product Summary
Product: Office 2000 Small Business Edition	Version: 9.0	Category:Compliant
Language: Norwegian	OS: 32-Bit Win	Release Date: 25 Mar 1999
Operational Range:	-
Prerequisites:	None
Product Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Clock Dependencies:	Product specific; see the links to product guides in the table below.
Last Updated:	17 Jun 1999
Product Details
Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customers' Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Office 2000 Small Business Edition version 9.0 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade. Operational Range for Data: Product specific; see the table below. The following table lists products in Office 2000 Small Business Edition, summarizes how they handle dates, and lists their operational ranges. For more information, see links to specific product guides. Product name and link to product guide Summary of how product handles dates Operational range for data Compliance rating Excel 2000 Dates are stored as numeric values and formatted according to one of several default formats, the most common being the system short date. If the system short date is a 2-digit format, even if the user enters a 4-digit year, it displays as two digits. To avoid this, users can change their system short date to a 4-digit format. 01/01/1900 through 12/31/9999 Compliant Outlook 2000 Dates are stored and manipulated as full dates (for example, March 15, 2005) and are displayed in two- and 4-digit formats according to the format selected by the user. 04/01/1601 through 08/31/4500 Compliant Publisher 2000 Dates are entered as a field or as text and are displayed according to the format selected by the user. Individual date/time field data does not contain date/time values, only formats. The Calendar wizard allows entry of 4-digit years only. System dependent Compliant Word 2000 Dates are stored as simple text strings or as a 32-bit integer. The date is represented by a 4-digit year. Dates saved with versions of documents retain their 4-digit year designations regardless of display. 01/01/1901 through 12/31/2411 Compliant Small Business Financial Tools Dates that are displayed are obtained from the operating system date and time, stored as 4-digit year dates, and displayed according to the user settings in the operating system. System dependent Compliant There are some simple steps users can take to avoid having confusing date formats in their Office programs, such as using 4-digit years and changing the date settings in their operating system. Even in those Office programs that are not necessarily used for performing calculations, such as Word, it is a good idea for users to use 4-digit years so that they and others who work in their documents can differentiate between dates. It is easy to change how the date is read and displayed so that years are presented as four digits. That is, the operating system date settings can be changed so that when 2/23/01 is entered, the program automatically displays the year in four digits as 2/23/2001. Planning for 4-digit-year display is important in programs such as Excel, where column widths may be fixed by the worksheet author with widths that are too narrow for 4-digit years. To change the system date format to display 4-digit years: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the Short date style box, click a format that uses a 4-digit year ("yyyy"). In Microsoft Windows 98, users can change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Instead of having the program interpret 2-digit years between 1930-2029 (the default time period), the period can be changed--to between 1950-2049, for example. Changing the operating system may help avoid date mistakes in the Office software. Because this change has broad impact on 2-digit date handling, including that in Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), before making the change, users should consider all instances of where 2-digit years may be handled in Office or in their operating system. To change the way 2-digit years are interpreted: On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click the Regional Settings icon, and then click the Date tab. In the When a two-digit year is entered, interpret as a year between box, change the upper-limit year in the rightmost box. The lower-limit year automatically changes as the upper-limit changes. Common date-handling across all Office programs: Except where noted by a product guide, Office programs get their Year 2000-related date information from core Office code. The code uses a 100-year date window: anything before a certain point is assumed to be in the 1900s, and anything after that point is in the 2000s. Unless the user specifies otherwise, the code assumes that when a user enters a 2-digit year with a value from 00 to 29, they mean the years 2000-2029, and if they enter 30 to 99, they mean the years 1930-1999. The user can change the date window in Windows 98 by following the procedure above to change the way 2-digit years are interpreted. Or they can change the date in the registry by creating or navigating to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Calendars\TwoDigitYearMax, adding or finding the string value "1," and then changing that value’s data to reflect the end year wanted. If the user changes the end year on the Date tab in Regional Settings to "2050," 2-digit values from 00 to 49 are interpreted as the years 2000-2049, and those values from 50 to 99 are interpreted as the years 1950-1999. For the shared technology Visual Basic for Applications version 6.0--which can be used to create compliant solutions based on Office programs--these same rules apply to all dates whether the date is used by an intrinsic function, it is directly entered into an Office program, or its information is assigned to a file attribute using VBA. For more information, see the Visual Basic for Applications 6.0 product guide, which is expected to be available in late April 1999. For Office setup functionality, because the Microsoft Windows installer uses dates to compare information already stored on a system, the installer relies on system date operations to ensure Year 2000 and backward compatibility. The Office Find Fast utility uses dates to determine how often to update information and as search criteria for users in a program’s Open dialog box (File menu). Find Fast reads in dates from either system date calls or Office documents and then stores the dates in full 4-digit-year format. Two-digit shortcut handling: Some programs support 2-digit shortcuts. For information about how a specific program converts 2-digit years to 4-digit formats, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Common date usage errors: If a date is pasted from one program into another using only the last two digits of the year, the date might be interpreted differently than the originating program interpreted it. Example: The date January 1, 1915, is in a non-Excel program. The date is copied, but because the system settings are "M/d/yy," all that is copied is the text "1/1/15." When "1/1/15" is pasted into Excel, Excel interprets the date as January 1, 2015. Such an error can also occur when one program is using an "M/d/yy" format while another is using a "d/M/yy" format. Due to the ambiguous nature of text dates, there is some potential for error. Serial dates should be used whenever possible and great care taken when transferring text dates. For more information about common date usage errors in a specific program, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide. Testing guidelines and recommendations: In general, avoid testing in a production environment or with nonduplicated production files because side effects with non-compliant products cannot be predicted. Interoperability testing with other Microsoft Office products can be conducted safely. For product-specific testing guidelines and recommendations, search for the product in the Products list in the Year 2000 Product Guide.

Legend of Symbols:
*	The product is compliant. User action is recommended, which may include loading a software update or assessing shared technology.
#	The product is compliant with an acceptable deviation from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability or reliability of the product.
+	The product is compliant . Software updates are pending. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly.
Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken.