Can I customise OfficeTalk’s address fields for International addresses?

An external file addr_fmt.dat can be used to change vocabulary related to address field naming. For example, for the US it is now possible to change Town/City, County and Postcode to Town, County and Zip respectively. It is also possible to populate the County pull down and the Country pull down. The format for the file addr_fmt.dat is as follows:

Address3 Replacement String
Town/City Replacement String
County Replacement String
Postcode Replacement String
County 1
County 2
County 3
etc
County n
:
Country 1
Country 2
Country3

The four replacement strings are followed by the first of a list of counties. A colon then signals the end of the list of counties and the start of a list of countries.To change the settings load the file addr_fmt.dat into Windows notepad and make the appropriate changes.

The American address format is stored in a file called addr_usa.dat. To change the America address format install OfficeTalk and then change the exisiting addr_fmt.dat to addr_fmt.old and then change the file addr_usa.dat to addr_fmt.dat.

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