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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.
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Thanks Sergei
I do this every time as I explained. However, excel defaults to US every time I open it. I then reset it as you describe, but the change does not affect all dates globally.
I then try and use control 1 and change the formatting there since the options doesn't work. Unfortunately that hassn't worked either.
I have now changed all the dates by hand and hope that this will hold. If it doesn't, I think that there's a problem with the software.
I do this every time as I explained. However, excel defaults to US every time I open it. I then reset it as you describe, but the change does not affect all dates globally.
I then try and use control 1 and change the formatting there since the options doesn't work. Unfortunately that hassn't worked either.
I have now changed all the dates by hand and hope that this will hold. If it doesn't, I think that there's a problem with the software.
I tried on my site, it works
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Do you really have dates or these are texts which looks like dates?