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title: "Activate Culture"
slug: "activate-culture"
description: "How the Activate Culture task sets the active culture for a run, controlling the language and formatting used in the output that follows."
updated: 2025-10-07T09:58:28Z
published: 2025-10-07T10:33:41Z
canonical: "help.mail-and-deploy.com/activate-culture"
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# Activate Culture

### General

This type of action is used to activate a culture which which will influence date and number formatting in subsequent actions and report document creations.

### Properties

This type of action has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Culture Name | An [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns a [String](/release36/docs/string) that returns the name of the culture to activate. This needs to be one of the values of the CultureInfo Code column of the [Culture Code List](https://azuliadesigns.com/c-sharp-tutorials/list-net-culture-country-codes/). |

### Example

If you add an *Activate Culture* action to the preparation actions of a [Report](/release36/docs/introduction-to-reports) to *en-US*. In an expression element of the report you use the following expression:

          Mail & Deploy Expression

          

Format(Date.Today, "d")

The d format string specifier format the given date (in this example: the current date) to the short date format of the currently activate culture. Since *en-US* is activated, the date will be formatted using the *MM/dd/yyyy* format.