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Margaritha
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Sep 30, 2020
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Who can help me. I would like to change a date format. In my word (and outlook) document I enter a date (by inserting date and time and a chosen format). For example: 2020-09-30. I have chosen for ...
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  • ExcelExciting's avatar
    ExcelExciting
    Sep 30, 2020

    Hi Margaritha 

     

    if I'm not mistaking you are referring to this. pls share the screenshot 

    If this is what you need you have select that field > right-click > Edit Field >change the format "Field properties > Date Formats". This will be easy for changing the format.

     

     

    Alt+F9 the field value should look like this

     

    { DATE \@ "YYYYMMDD" }

     

     

    Regards, Faraz Shaikh | MCT, MIE, MOS Master, Excel Expert

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Margaritha
Copper Contributor
Sep 30, 2020

ExcelExciting 

Thank you very much. I see what's wrong. When i look with F9 this appears: 

{ TIME /@"yyyy-MM-dd" } 

if i remove the dashes in this code nothing happens. But if I change TIME to DATE the program asks to update .... and then it is ok!

 

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ExcelExciting
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Sep 30, 2020

Hi Margaritha 

 

Glad to hear your query is resolved 😃 & thanks for sharing your experience 

 

Regards, Faraz Shaikh | MCT, MIE, MOS Master, Excel Expert

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