excel date formatting not working

Question

I have an excel sheet created by a 3rd party program.

One of the columns has dates in this format: \"Jan 19, 2015 03:00:00 PM\"

I would like these dates to appea

Answer 1

Struggled with this issue for 20 mins today. My issue was the same as MARIO's in this thread, but my solution is easier. If you look at his answer above, the blue circled dates are "month/day/year", and the red dates are "day/month/year". Changing the red date format to match the blue date format, then selecting all of them, right click, Format Cells, Category "Date", select the Type desired. The Red dates can be changed manually, or use some other excel magic to swap the day and month.