How to swap or reverse day and month of date in Excel?
Supposing you need to reverse the day and month in a range of date as below screenshot shown, how to achieve it? This article will show you two methods to solve this problem.
Swap or reverse day and month of date with custom format
Quickly swap or reverse day and month of date with Kutools for Excel
Swap or reverse day and month of date with customizing date formatting
You can customize the date formatting to swap or reverse day and month of date in Excel. Please do as follows.
1. Select the date cells you will swap the days and months, and then press the Ctrl + 1 keys to open the Format Cells dialog box.
2. In the Format Cells dialog box, please click Custom in the Category box under Number tab. If the original date formatting is m/d/yyyy, please enter d/m/yyyy into the Type box, and if the original date formatting is d/m/yyyy, please enter m/d/yyyy into the Type box, and finally click the OK button. See screenshot:
Now the day and month are swapped in selected date cells.
Quickly swap or reverse day and month of date with Kutools for Excel
This section will recommend you the Apply Date Formatting utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can easily swap day and month of date with only several clicks.
Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.
1. Select the date range you need to swap the day and month, then click Kutools > Format > Apply Date Formatting. See screenshot:
2. In the Apply Date Formatting dialog box, please specify such as 14/3/2001 or other matched date format in the Date formatting box, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:
Then you can see all days and months of selected dates are swapped immediately as below screenshot shown.
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.
Quickly swap or reverse day and month of date with Kutools for Excel
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