Hi Proficient N,
Thank you for reaching out. My name is Leo, a user just like you. I'd be happy to help you with your concern.
Your Excel is set to the default mm/dd/yyyy format. To change it to dd/mm/yyyy, you must select all the cells that contain your dates. Then, go to the Data tab > Text to columns > Delimited > Next > Uncheck all delimiters > Next > Date > DMY > Finish. Once done, check if the dates have changed to the format you want.
Your understanding and patience will be highly appreciated. I hope I provided a helpful solution regarding the issue! Let me know if you have any further questions. Be safe always!
Best Regards,
Leo
Microsoft Community
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Conversion from European Date Format | Microsoft Community Hub
June 23, 2020 - I'm using Excel 365. I just copied a column of dates from a web page and pasted them into a column in Excel. The dates on the web page were in the European date format (i.e., dd/mm/yyyy).
Reddit
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r/excel on Reddit: Converting European date to American
August 8, 2023 -
I have a spreadsheet with a list of burial dates from England and the age they died. The dates are in the day/month/year format (12/02/1854). Is there anyway to convert it to month/day/year?
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select the date cells Data > Text to columns delimited > next > next Date [DMY] > finish as an aside to convert US to European use Date [MDY]
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Highlight all the dates, right click, format cell; then, under category, you can select "date" and pick a preset format or "custom" and make your own (e.g. mm/dd/yyyy).
How to get Excel to correctly recognize imported American dates, or convert them to European format?
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I need to convert a date from a USA format (MM/DD/YYYY) to a EU (DD/MM/YYYY) without changing the region in my settings. More on community.smartsheet.com
How to get Excel to correctly recognize imported American dates, or convert them to European format?
I'm exporting Excel files from an online platform that uses the American date format ( MM/DD/YYYY ) whereas on my computer, I use the European one (DD/MM/YYYY). Excel automatically tries fix/interpret the dates, but makes quite a mess of it. The dates… More on answers.microsoft.com
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October 10, 2023excel - European Date format in Userform - Stack Overflow
I have a Userform that populates Textboxes with dates from a worksheet. The idea is to be able to edit the dates and save them back to the worksheet. The problem is the dates show up in American fo... More on stackoverflow.com
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How to convert European date to US date in Excel with formula
December 5, 2023 - This means that we can format our date serial number as a European date as it was originally. The trick is that the format should be "MM/DD/YYYY" opposed to the European format due to Excel's incorrect evaluation.
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Hi Proficient N,
Thank you for reaching out. My name is Leo, a user just like you. I'd be happy to help you with your concern.
Your Excel is set to the default mm/dd/yyyy format. To change it to dd/mm/yyyy, you must select all the cells that contain your dates. Then, go to the Data tab > Text to columns > Delimited > Next > Uncheck all delimiters > Next > Date > DMY > Finish. Once done, check if the dates have changed to the format you want.
Your understanding and patience will be highly appreciated. I hope I provided a helpful solution regarding the issue! Let me know if you have any further questions. Be safe always!
Best Regards,
Leo
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Hi Leo Marcha,
Thank you so much. Your reply helped me solve the problem.
My excel default setting is DD/MM/YYYY and the source data was in MM/DD/YYYY, so under the text-to-column I selected MDY and that worked correctly.
Statology
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Excel: Convert Date Format from European to U.S.
August 16, 2023 - For example, this would convert a European date format of 14/5/2023 to a U.S. date format of 5/14/2023. The following example shows how to use this formula in practice. Suppose we have the following list of dates in Excel that are currently in a standard European date format:
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Convert date format from US to EU - Smartsheet Community
November 15, 2023 - I need to convert a date from a USA format (MM/DD/YYYY) to a EU (DD/MM/YYYY) without changing the region in my settings.
Microsoft Support
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Change regional format settings in Excel for the web - Microsoft Support
Click Home > Number Format > More number formats... Under Category, click Date, Time, or Special, and then select a locale from the Locale menu.
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How to change Excel date format and create custom formatting
October 10, 2023 - If the date format is not changing in your Excel sheet, most likely your dates are formatted as text and you have to convert them to the date format first. Once you've got a file full of foreign dates and you would most likely want to change them to the date format used in your part of the world. Let's say, you want to convert an American date format (month/day/year) to a European ...
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Convert US Dates To UK Dates Using Excel - Purple Computing
February 27, 2023 - When it tries to process a US date in UK format which is impossible e.g 02/25/2016, it will treat that as plain text rather than a date. In US format this is a valid representation of the 25th Feb, but in UK format you can’t have the 2nd day of the 25th month, so it is converted to a text cell. Nightmare. You need Excel for this, tested on 2011+.
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How to change international date formatted as text to US date format | Microsoft Community Hub
August 5, 2023 - Select "Date" from the list of formatting options, and choose "MM/DD/YYYY" from the drop-down. Click "OK" to apply the US date format to the selected cells.
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Converting dates to and from US format in Excel - FM
January 22, 2020 - To show you how to overcome this problem, I will illustrate with converting US dates to what is often known as the “European” date format. Now, I know many readers would prefer this to be the other way around. I apologise, but I am an Australian Brit with the appropriate regional settings on my machine, and it’s a little awkward to perform screenshots that way.
Tech thoughts
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Convert between US and European date formats in Excel – Tech thoughts
October 14, 2015 - The easiest way I know of (please let me know if you know a better way) to convert between US ("mm/dd/yy") and European ("dd/mm/yy") dates without using VBA in Excel is via "Text to Columns".
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How to quickly convert date format between European and US in Excel?
August 30, 2024 - Enhance your Excel capabilities with AI-powered tools. Download Now and experience efficiency like never before! If the dates you received are formatted as European or US dates, you can apply Format Cells function to quickly handle the conversion between European and US countries.
Stack Overflow
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excel - European Date format in Userform - Stack Overflow
I was commenting this answer which is writing strings into Excel cells 2020-10-27T15:17:48.61Z+00:00 ... @A.Amel - Thank you for the code. I am not sure how I am supposed to add one of them into the code I have already set up. As you can see, the date columns are placed specifically within the worksheet, and I need to be able to populate the Userform with the dates in European Format ("dd/mm/YYYY"), then once edited, to replace them into the correct cells on the worksheet.
Wikipedia
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Date and time notation in Europe - Wikipedia
June 15, 2025 - As a European Norm, CEN and CENELEC member states are obligated to adopt the standard as national standard without alterations as well. Except for Austria, Germany and Switzerland, see the navigation box on the bottom to find individual articles per country. Official EU documents still tend to use DD.MM.YYYY but one document specifies the use of ISO 8601: "Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD."
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Converting European Dates to US Dates (Microsoft Excel)
Using the date format drop-down list, choose DMY. Click Finish. That's it; your data is converted, in place, to the date values that Excel can work with. ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (3309) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Excel (Excel 2007 and later) here: Converting European Dates to US Dates.
Reddit
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r/USdefaultism on Reddit: When Americans don’t understand European date format on an imported German product
December 30, 2023 - ISO 8601 is too broad. For the dates alone (because with time and timezones it gets worse) it allows for too many formats, today is 2023-12-31 but also 2023-W52-7, 2023-365 and 2023W527 whereas for RFC 3339 only the first format is valid.
Wikipedia
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List of date formats by country - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "21 March 2026" (21/03/26, 21/03/2026, 21-03-2026 or 21.03.2026) and month–day formats such as "March 21, 2026" (03/21/26 or 03/21/2026).
W3C
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Date formats
July 4, 2007 - ISO 8601 specifies a format of YYYY-MM-DD. 2003-04-02 is clearer than 03/04/02. (Some prefer to modify ISO 8601 by using an abbreviation for the month to make it more clear, for example 2003-Apr-02, but then it is no longer locale neutral.). ... This method is unambiguous. ISO 8601 is computer friendly. Doing a standard character sort on a list of dates gives you a chronologically ordered list.