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NareshBabu1511
Mar 11, 2024Copper Contributor
Date format for current month shows up differently when opened by few users
Hi All, We have a custom formula in a workbook to display month-year as "MMM-YYYY" format (Mar-2024) using formula TEXT(TODAY()-DAY(TODAY()),"MMM-YYYY"). But when this workbook is opened by few u...
SergeiBaklan
Mar 11, 2024Diamond Contributor
That depends on regional format set on concrete machine for the OS (Windows)
- NareshBabu1511Mar 11, 2024Copper ContributorThanks for the response Sergei. Users are all located in same region, but it is happening only for few of them. Is there a place where we can check this?
- SergeiBaklanMar 12, 2024Diamond Contributor
On Window
Settings->Time&language->Language & region->Administrative language settings->Formats tab
What is here depends on what was selected during OS installation.
- NareshBabu1511Mar 12, 2024Copper Contributor
SergeiBaklan - thanks for responding.
So would the OS date formats define or derive what gets displayed with this formula "=TEXT(TODAY()-DAY(TODAY()),"MMM-YYYY")" even though we are trying to set the format as "MMM-YYYY"?
We want every user to have one format as "MMM-YYYY" ('Feb-2024').
Thanks!