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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
That's at least discussable what easier to use - Text to Columns, Power Query, Access, VBA programming or something else. Depends on what do you know better. If Excel, when Text to Columns or like. If another tool, when it.
An additional column in the import table could also be useful. Replacing the period "." by hyphen "-" or forward slash "/" using
= --SUBSTITUTE([@DateText],".","/")
would give a date value column.
If that's one time operation you may select column with texts, on ribbon Data->Text to Columns and on third step of the wizard select source date formar
Now you shall have dates in your locale format
(I use ISO format) or apply any one which is more suitable for you.
If you import data on regular basis it's better to make such transformation within importing process, e.g. Power Query works fine with that.
- Thanks a lot
