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chibiberu
Feb 20, 2025Copper Contributor
How to format a date (week day) as Japanese, the the English version of Excel ?
Hi, I use the last Excel build of Mcrosoft 365 for Mac (presently Version 16.95 (25021621)), on the last version of macOS (presently 15.3.1) I need to format dates the Japanese way, but using the E...
- Feb 21, 2025
On Windows that is
or if convert to text
=TEXT(TODAY(), "[$-ja-JP]dddd mmmm dd")
JKPieterse
Feb 20, 2025Silver Contributor
If you choose Date as the cell format and then select Japanese from the Locale drop-down:
you should be able to select the date format you need. After that, click the "Custom" category so you can see what the custom format string is.
- HansVogelaarFeb 20, 2025MVP
Unfortunately, Excel will still display day names (abbreviated or not) in English