How To Convert Dates Between Australian & US Formats In Excel

If you’ve got a bunch of dates in US mm/dd/yyyy format and need to convert them into Australia’s dd/mm/yyyy format (or vice-versa), it can be hard to know where to start. Office expert Helen Bradley details how you can work through that process in Excel.As Bradley notes, you can’t simply apply a different date format to the data as this will either produce errors or convert dates into the wrong month (3/1/2011 is January 3 in Australia, but March 1 in the US). However, using Excel’s Text to columns feature, you can reprocess the data to render correctly. Hit the post for the full details.

Excel Convert dates from MDY to DMY


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