How to Reformat a Date in Excel. When you enter a date in one format on a Microsoft Excel worksheet and then want to change the order of the day, month and year, try accessing the Format Cells ...

This article will teach you how to change the date format in Microsoft Excel to have a uniform structure across your spreadsheet.

If numbers keep changing to dates automatically in Excel or if Excel changes dates to random numbers then this post will help you fix the issue.

How to Change to Accounting Format in Excel. The accounting format in Microsoft Excel 2010 is very similar to the currency format---both display the currency symbol next to every number.

Not Using a Recognized Date Format When you enter a value into a cell that Excel recognizes as a date, the number format in the Number group of the Home tab will change to either Date or Custom.

Microsoft is testing out a new =COPILOT function in Excel cells – it's in beta with improvements needed, but you can try it now.

Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.