nput and Pattern are attributs of the <wr:out tag and are accessible from Autotag wizard.

I work on Win XP SP2 French and Word 2003 French.

I set the type to CURRENCY -> the values were displayed like $1000.11 while the Region Setting was French(Swiss) with Sfr as currency symbol.
I set the type to NUMBER with a pattern #'##0.00 -> The values were displayed as 1,000.00

Then I set the LOCALE to English(US) and drop the $ symbol and changed the grouping symbol (from , to ')

Everything worked fine: the values were correctly displayed.

Conclusion:
Java Windward engine using the DecimalFormat class does not take into account the LOCALE but only the symbols used for the locale English(US).
Not really friendly as I don't want to change my LOCALE just for Windward.

I should be dummy as I created a winword.exe.config (there is a winword.exe) and a word.exe.config as well to make sure, in the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

Both files contain the single line:

report.locale=en_HK

I restarted Word 2003 (making sure there is no hidden word.exe process still running) but I don't see any impact: the currency format of "<wr:out" uses always the settings of fr_FR (while the system LOCALE is set to French(Swiss) )

 Here are the contents of a word.exe.config file. This file is the same as WindwardReports.dll.config:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- This file is not used when running! You must copy these entried over to your App.exe.config file -->

<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="WindwardReports" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler"/>
<section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
</configSections>

<WindwardReports>
<!-- Put your key here. Multiple lines are ok but do not put spaces at the ebginning/end of the lines -->
<add key="license" value="enter your license key here"/>

<!-- sample settings
<add key="line.break" value="internal"/>
<add key="default.chart.dpi" value="300"/>
<add key="html.full_file" value="true"/>
<add key="html.html_type" value="1"/>
-->
</WindwardReports>

<!-- This will log to both the console and a log file. You may want to change this. -->
<log4net>
<appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%ndc] - %message%newline"/>
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<param name="File" value="/Windward.log" />
<param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
<param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="2" />
<param name="MaximumFileSize" value="100KB" />
<param name="RollingStyle" value="Size" />
<param name="StaticLogFileName" value="true" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] ac.server %-5p %c - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<root>
<level value="INFO"/>
<appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
<appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
</root>
</log4net>

</configuration>
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--Ryan