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title: "Activate Culture"
slug: "activate-culture"
updated: 2023-12-13T10:26:13Z
published: 2023-12-13T10:26:13Z
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 that returns a 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. |

### Example

If you add an Activate Culture action to the preparation actions of a Report 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.