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How to convert date/time format cell to date only in Excel?

If you want to convert date-time format cell to date value only such as 2016/4/7 1:01 AM to 2016/4/7, this article can help you.

Convert date/time format cell to date only with formula
Easily remove all times from dates with just several clicks
Convert date/time format cell to date only with Kutools for Excel


Convert date/time format cell to date only with formula

The following formula will help you converting date/time format cell to date only in Excel.

1. Select a blank cell you will place the date value, then enter formula =MONTH(A2) & "/" & DAY(A2) & "/" & YEAR(A2) into the formula bar and press the Enter key.

2. You can see only the date value is populated in the selected cell based on the date/time cell. Keep selecting the date cell, then drag the Fill Handle down to display all dates based on other date/time cells. See screenshot:


Easily remove all times from dates with just several clicks

This section will show you how to easily remove all times from selected date cells with the Remove time from date utility of Kutools for Excel. Please do as follows.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select a blank cell for locating the date after removing time from (says C2). Click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper. See screenshot:

2. In the Formulas Helper dialog box, please configure as follows.

  • In the Choose a formula box, find and select Remove time from date;
    Tips: You can check the Filter box, enter certain word into the text box to filter the formula quickly.
  • Select the cell with datetime you need to keep only date in the DateTime box;
  • Click the OK button.

3. Keep selecting the first result cell, then drag the Fill Handle down to get all results as you need as below screenshot shown:

Now all times are removed from specified dates.

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.


Convert date/time format cell to date only with Kutools for Excel

Here I recommend you a handy tool – Kutools for Excel. With its Apply Date Formatting utility, you can easily convert date/time format cell to any kind of date format as you need.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select the date/time format cell you need to display only the date value, then click Kutools > Format > Apply Date Formatting. See screenshot:

2. In the Apply Date Formatting dialog box, select a date format in the Date formatting box, and then click the OK button.

Now the date/time format cells are displayed as date value only. See screenshot:

Note: Although the date/time format cells are shown as date only, the displayed values in the Formula Bar are still date/time format. If you want to convert the displayed values in the formula bar to their actual value, please select them and click Kutools > To Actual. See screenshot:

  If you want to have a free trial (30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.


Convert date/time format cell to date only


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esiste una formula che consente di convertire il formato lunedì 04/09/2023 13:34 in 04/09/23 ?
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Interesting to the view the response to this - but "int(a2)" then format will achieve the same thing by dropping the partial date string from the end of the integer.
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I'm trying to convert dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm to local times. i.e Time Zone (GMT) 21/09/2022 05:01 to Result (EST From (GMT)) 21/09/2022 00:01. Time difference is -5 Hours
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So Helpful, thank you!
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sir i have date and time in this(46:32.8") format , how can i change it in date and time format??????

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I HAVE DATE IN 2024-05-01 17:38:06 FORMATE BUT I WANT TO CHANGE IN 24-05-2018 SO IT IS POSSIBLE PLEASE GIVE ANSWER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
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Good day,
Sorry can't really understand what you said. Pease try to change the cell format to dd-mm-yyyy.
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does not work at all , only USA formats works. Normally you put the day first as 31/10/2018 Canada , UK, etc. which is Oct 31 2018 but Kutools does not work , it just assumes the US format is the original and doesn't ask or try to figure out, there is not 31 months so it should know that is the day. I guess I will uninstall Kutools and look for something else. It seems to me there is better program that recognizes any date formats and converts.
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This works better: =DATE(YEAR(A2),MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))
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This was good. I follow your example and applied also =TIME(HOUR(A2),MINUTE(A2),SECOND(A2)) so to place in a separated cell the time!
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I think using ROUNDDOWN(A2,0) would be easier.
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Thanks a lot. it is good.
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An easier formula would be
=text(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy")
Sello - for your issue just swap the mm and dd around.
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Appreciated. It helped me
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