Change Date Format in Excel

cjg1901

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Hi all

Hoping someone can help me with this:

I have a column with DOB entries like this Aug 27 1982 - I need it displayed as 27/08/1982.

Aug 27 1982 is not a "date format" in Excel so when I try to display it as "Short Date" it does not work, please help?

Thanks
Caroline :)
 

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Add Bullets to Range
Select range. Press Ctrl+1. On Number tab, choose Custom. Type Alt+7 then space then @ sign (using 7 on numeric keypad)
Select your column of DOB then use Ctrl + 1 to go into Format Cells, then at the bottom left select Custom, then on the type line use dd/mm/yyyy

D = Day
M = Month
Y = Year
 
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Hi. Try this. Select the dates, Data > Text to Columns, tick Delimited, click Next twice, tick Date and select MDY then click Finish.
 
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Hi. Try this. Select the dates, Data > Text to Columns, tick Delimited, click Next twice, tick Date and select MDY then click Finish.

TrevorG - I tried your way it didn't work :(

VoG - thank you so much, it worked!!! :):)
 
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