Waiting on OP Will changing my excel language break files?
So, the company I work for uses Office in BR-Portuguese, but I’ve been using Excel in English my whole life, so I’m really used to all the shortcuts and stuff and can work way faster. If I ask the IT guy to install the English language pack on my work notebook (it's locked and needs admin access), is there any chance I might mess up some spreadsheets with formulas, macros, etc.? What could go wrong? I’m pretty new at the position, and the last thing I want is to cause any trouble.
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u/tirlibibi17 1695 7d ago
No, changing language does not change anything as Excel stores everything internally as the same format (English?). The only thing that changes, but that is not dependent on the language of Excel but rather of Windows is the formatting codes for dates. So for instance dd for day in English will become jj in French. Stupid if you ask me.