My daughter has been teaching me how to use Excel. I am getting better but one problem which she can't resolve!

I have a column of dates as: -

02/03
29/03
01/06

etc

I want to change this to read: -

2-Mar
29-Mar
1-June

She has tried to highlight and change the date format but this doesn't seem to make any difference??

Any suggestions please?

Thanks, David

 

FWIW, I've just copied/pasted your top numbers into Excel - it came straight up with what you wanted.....

But you are doing it right -

01/01

right-click (format cells)
pop down to "custom" and it should work

HTH

dan

 

Wouldn't the custom format like "dd-mmm" get you what you need? Dependant on what data format the original cell was to begin with.

 

If the data has been copied from elsewhere it probably has some weird format with it. You can copy and paste the column into notepad (removes formatting) then copy and paste it back into a different (unformatted) column and then drag that column to where you want it. Thats assuming the above suggestions dont work which they should do

 

OK guys - thanks. I'll have a go but make sure I keep a back-up of the original first!! David