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Date Formatting Won't Change
I have an excel column that includes dates currently formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. I want it formatted as YYYY/MM/DD. When I go to format cells and change the date format, nothing changes. If I try to cha...
- 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
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