Total Editing Time not working

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Does anyone have an idea why the "total editing time" in the properties tab
would always be on zero, in all word documents?
I am using Office 2003.
 
Some countries/regions, such as Germany, have laws that regulate automatic
tracking of the time you spend working on a computer. If your location
specified on your computer is a country/region that regulates automatic
tracking of work, the Total editing time (File menu, Properties dialog box,
Statistics tab) is turned off.

Hope this helps,
 
Thanks Brian for your response!
The thing is that I am in America, using an Office program that I bought
here. I checked regional settings, they are all American.
And on my old laptop, Word would track the editing time on all documents -
with the exact same Office program!
Something changed, and I'm trying to figure out what it is...
 
OK, I solved the problem. Thanks Brian to pointing out that in some countries
the timing option is illegal, that was a good clue.

What needed to be changed was not the regional settings on Windows (which
were set to the US) but the default language in the Office language settings
(Start-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office Tools-Microsoft Office 2003 Language
Settings). My default language was German.

This hardly makes any sense- can't I live in the US but write documents in a
language other than English??
But at least it is working now.
 
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