Date format mystery

EdieB

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Office Version
  1. 2013
Platform
  1. Windows
Ever I stated using Excel the date format I have used is MM/DD/YY. Just recently, I noticed that all the dates I have entered on different spreadsheets are now show as MM,DD,YY. When I look at the format menu to change them back there is not an option for MM/DD/YY unless I do a custom format. Did Excel change something? Is there a way I can go back to my preferred format without having to do the custom format?

Thanks
 

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Even though it looked right, I hit reset and it corrected the issue. Thanks for your help.
 
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Another thing to consider is that maybe your dates are really just text, looking like dates? You can format text however you want, but it still wont change
 
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