Date Formatting in Excel

Want to display todays date or display a date in a different format. Here I show you

Display date in a different format, like July 1, 2015 or 1/7/2015 or 2015 July 1 or Wednesday July 1, 2015.

This is done with the properties of the cell.

For Time formatting go to Time Formatting

 

date format

Go to More Number Formats if the choice is not the one you want.

more number formats

Here you already have a certain number of preselected formats to chose from in order to format the time and date.

If this is not enough, then use CUSTOM selection to have a customized formatting.

customer number format

Now you can use the following rule for date formatting

rule for years display

 

The format is just a combination of these Ys, Ms and Ds....like yyyy/mm/dd,ddd which will give you : 2015/07/01, Wednesday

Example: you want to change the date format to show the day of the week

27 July 2001 if you write dddd-d-mmm-y   it will be  Friday-27-Jul-01

To just have the Day: d

The day of the week: ddd or dddd

Just the Month: m or mm

Now you try....