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Hello,

I have an excel sheet which has lots of cells in a column with the date format as - day month date time year & I wish to convert that to dd/mm/yy. How can I do that, pls help.

eg - I need to convert "sat Jun 29 00:00:00 PST 1996" to "29/06/96". How can I. Any help is appreciated.System Configuration: Windows XP
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khoi · Accepted Answer

go to Data, text to columns, make sure Delimited is highlighted and press next. check the space box then next. highlight the fields you do not want an select, do not import the finish. this will remove the time stamp. you can them format your column by right clicking, format etc.

karina · Answer

go to Format Cells, click on Number Tab and then select Custom and type dd/mm/yy under Type:

Pancho · Answer

It took me a while to find a solution to an existing list of dates, (which is what I am assuming you are working with). In my case I had international date (dd/mm/yyyy) and wanted a U.S. view (mm/dd/yyyy). 
Select the Column range you want to convert (must be continuous), then click on 'Data', click 'Next' twice (ignoring the Delimted vs Fixed Width Choice & the Delimiter character, then select DMY or MDY from the drop down list. In my case, since my OP system is U.S. but the spreadsheet came from overseas, I had to go with a DMY to 'clean up" 

Credit to https://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/convert-excel-date-formats.htm

rahul · Answer

first u go in format which u see in top menu. than go to cells or click calls button, than go to number n than u see the category details. than go to date n change your format. okok

ROCK · Answer

Thanks a lot, this one is very helpful.

Fatima · Answer

Thank You--At least my issue is resolved.

epayne · Answer

Hi everyone, my problem is sort of the same as above, but slightly different.

I have data that says 08/01/09 21:43:40 (as in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss) which is exactly what I want. Problem is, is that in the display bar, it converts the time to AM/PM so in the display bar it says 08/01/09 9:43:40 PM.

the display bar seems to be the 'computer' version, as in when I look on text to columns, delimited, it displays the data is AM/PM time with an AM PM column.

i thought if I copied and pasted the data it might retain the original displayed value (without the AM PM as I want it) but it always shows the AM PM.

HELP, I need to format it so I definately is in 24hr time.

thanks

Trowa · Answer

Look at the first answer from Karina.

fx · Answer

Hello All.. if you have a value on Excel column with for example 10/21/09 12:00:36am and you want to get only the Date. You can use the Text to Column functionality and fixed with. The value then will be separated into to columns thus gaving you A column to have 10/21/09 and B column 12:00:36am

Hope this helps

Anonymous User · Answer

Go to Format Cells, click on Number Tab and then select Custom and type.

khalid musa · Answer

how to show 000 in one excel sheet cell

Tom · Answer

Tried all of the above (to create YYYY/MM/DD), and although the output on the screen changes, as soon as the file is saved the format reverts to DD/MM/YY.

Grrrrrr.

amit · Answer

u need to change language in the regional lang settings if you need the format to appear as dd/mm/yyyy then select lang as english uk

kelly7898 · Answer

It took me a while to find a solution to an existing list of dates, (which is what I am assuming you are working with). In my case I had international date (dd/mm/yyyy) and wanted a U.S. view (mm/dd/yyyy).
Select the Column range you want to convert (must be continuous), then click on 'Data', click 'Next' twice (ignoring the Delimted vs Fixed Width Choice & the Delimiter character, then select DMY or MDY from the drop down list. In my case, since my OP system is U.S. but the spreadsheet came from overseas, I had to go with a DMY to 'clean up"

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kelly7898 · Answer

It took me a while to find a solution to an existing list of dates, (which is what I am assuming you are working with). In my case I had international date (dd/mm/yyyy) and wanted a U.S. view (mm/dd/yyyy).
Select the Column range you want to convert (must be continuous), then click on 'Data', click 'Next' twice (ignoring the Delimted vs Fixed Width Choice & the Delimiter character, then select DMY or MDY from the drop down list. In my case, since my OP system is U.S. but the spreadsheet came from overseas, I had to go with a DMY to 'clean up" 

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lc · Answer

thank you issue solved! :)

Datetrouble · Answer

My problem was with data entry, some dates apparently being accepted, some not.

I was trying to type in the date of a month in excel as mm/dd/yy some it would accept and put on the right side of the cell and others it would reject and put on the left side of the cell. Turns out that it was autoformatting the cells as dd/mm/yy and if the second value was greater than 12 it would automatically reject it as a date. Turns out this is because excel 2007 uses the information from the region settings part of control panel in Windows. Mine were set up as English (Canada). If you change the short date format here it will automatically be reflected in Excel, you may need to select another english option in my case English (United States) and select the appropriate short day format. Excel will now recognize the entry as mm/dd/yy. Once you are done your data entry and you can be sure your data is entered corretly (months are months and days are days) you can then choose format cells to make the data look the way you want independent of what the region settings are.

If you know you will be pasting data from another source that will be formatted different than your default region settings it will likely be worth changing region settings before pasting to ensure data integrity.

love2garv · Answer

Dear 

for this just right click on the cell and select format cell option, in number tab go to custom, and at the place of type, write dd/mm/yy and press ok. 

This might solve ur problem.

Urs frnd Vivek

santosh · Answer

The Best Solution (May be temprary ) is

Go and change your system date format to whatever format you want in 
and it will change

go to

Change date and time settings
than go to change callender date/time setting

thanks

TPD · Answer

I just want to get the value in HH:MM format (Hours, not the time) to converted in DD:HH:MM format. Such as- 11:30hrs.  as 00:11:30 (DD:HH:MM)...how can I do in in excell?? Pls. mail me at - tirthapratim.dutta@gmail.com

fred · Answer

18043

JAS105 · Answer

TRY GOING TO EACH WORKSHEET 
select OPTIONS / TRANSITION AND UNTICK BOTH 
TRANSITION FORMULA EVALUATION AND TRANSITION FORMULA ENTRY 

NO IDEA WHY BUT NOW ALL MY SPREDSHEETS IN THE WORKBOOK ENABLE ME TO FORMAT 13-Mar-10 without telling me I have formula error 

ps dont ask me why

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