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Date Formatting Won't Change
- Finally figured this out.
Change the date format of your computer from the taskbar.
Regardless of timezone and all, go to your task bar> click the time/date > region >then look for additional date, time & regional settings > change date, time and number formats> additional settings> then go to the date tab and you can manually set the format by using the MMM dd yyyy or whichever format you want it in. Restart your computer and it should work on excel.
Wew
I have a similar situation currently.
I am working with about 200 000 rows across 10 columns.
My first column contained the date and time. I separated these. My dates are somewhat repetitive since data was collected every 5 minutes for 2 years.
All my dates from the first one to the 90 754th one will not format correctly. Excel is reading it as year, month day, when I need it should be month, day, year. For example, my dates are reading 05/04/15 (y/m/d) but i need 05 to be the month, 04 to be the day and 15 to be the year.
All my dates below 90 754 are correct.
I have tried formatting them so many different times. I have spent the last three hours trying to figure this out.
I spent days stitching my data together. I don't want to have to redo it because I can't get this right.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
KaylaSch out of despair I typed 03 or 3 Feb in a cell as I don't use year with it and I don't need to see it.
it worked to the format I wanted as 03/02 not meaning 2nd of March.
To be sure, I dragged down a few rows and it was consistent.
My default date on the laptop is dd/mm/yyyy so I could not understand why Excel persisted to do mm/dd/yyyy
Hope it works for you.