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kjmc
Jul 14, 2025Copper Contributor
Default Date Format refuses to use system regional settings
There are lots of forum questions about date format - this might be answered somewhere, but it's too deep to find the answer. I have Excel from Microsoft 365, installed on my Windows 10 computer. E...
kjmc
Jul 18, 2025Copper Contributor
So, any idea how I file a bug report? Because that's as clear a bug as I've ever seen. User uses standard format for their region, Microsoft claims the application uses the OS regionalization, the application clearly recognizes that it's a date, but the application ignores the user and the regionalization and reformats the user's input into an unchangeable default date format the user didn't want. If I typed 15, and Excel turned it into "0x0f" by default, surely we'd all agree that's actually a bug?
HansVogelaar
Jul 18, 2025MVP
You can report it from within Excel: on the Help tab of the ribbon, click Feedback, then click 'Report a problem'.
I suspect that Microsoft will not consider this to be a bug, though.