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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
IMHO, bit easier use Text to Columns as mentioned above (select column A, Data->Text to Columns, on third step of the wizard select Date and MDY)
If formula conversion is more preferable, we may cut number of steps using
=DATE( RIGHT(A2,4), LEFT(A2,2), MID(A2,4,2) )which returns the date directly.
That did the trick and much easier! Thank you!