change date format of cell in excel from dd.mm.yyyy to yyy/mm/dd ( excel version 2013 )

Question

I have been searching it for an hour but unfortunately nothing found that actually work. I have an excel sheet with a column having date in it. Current date format is dd

Answer 1

You are making this way too complicated. Just use the DATE(year,month,day) function and switch the DAY() and YEAR() inside it.

If in cell A1 you have a European-style date in this format: 12-04-2017; Excel will interpret this as Dec 4, 2017.

Excel will interpret it properly as Apr 12, 2017 if you change it to the American-style of 04-22-2017 by writing this equation in another cell: "=DATE(YEAR(A1),DAY(A1),MONTH(A1))".
(I put the DAY() in the month spot and the MONTH() in the day spot.) Now you can use any date format you want.