How to: Set the Locale for a Report or Text Box (Report Designer)

To set the locale for a report

In Layout view, click outside the report design surface to select the report.
In the Properties window, for the Language property, type or select the language that you want to use for the report.

In Layout view, select the text box to which you want to apply the locale settings.
In the Properties window, do the following:
- For the Calendar property, type or select the calendar that you want to use for dates.
- For the Direction property, type or select the horizontal direction in which the text is written.
- For the Language property, type or select the language that you want to use for the text box.
- For the NumeralLanguage property, type or select the format to use for numbers in the text box.
- For NumeralVariant, type or select the variant of the format to use for numbers in the text box.
- For UnicodeBiDi, select the level of bi-directional embedding to use in the text box.