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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
Hi Chris,
What is your default (system) date format? To check you may hit Ctrl+1 on any cell and select Date. First two formats in the right pane will be marked by asterisk, these are so called short and long dates. In my case it looks like
You shall enter dates as in first record, i.e. 10/10/2018 (instead of 10.10.2018) if you see in above 14/03/2012. Otherwise you have some text in form of dates, not dates as Excel recognizes them.
In brief, most probably you enter dates as text
This solved my issue. thankss!