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
Comparison of Methods for Swapping Day and Month of Dates in Excel
If the day and month in your dates appear in the wrong order, you can switch their display using Excel's Custom Date Formatting or Kutools for Excel's Apply Date Formatting feature. Both methods change how the dates are displayed without changing the underlying date values.
| Comparison | Excel Custom Date Formatting | Kutools Apply Date Formatting |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Select the dates, open Format Cells, choose Custom, and enter the required date format | Select the dates, open Apply Date Formatting, choose the required date format, and click OK |
| Format selection | Manually enter d/m/yyyy or m/d/yyyy in the Type box | Choose a matching format, such as 14/3/2001, from the Date formatting list |
| Format entry | Requires knowing and entering the appropriate Excel date format code | Select the desired date appearance from ready-to-use formats |
| Best for | Quickly changing the day/month display order when you know the required date format code | Quickly switching date formats without manually entering format codes |
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.
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
Conclusion
Excel's Custom Date Formatting provides a simple built-in way to switch the displayed order of the day and month. If the original format is m/d/yyyy, enter d/m/yyyy in the Custom Type box, or use m/d/yyyy to reverse a d/m/yyyy format.
Kutools for Excel's Apply Date Formatting provides a more visual approach. Instead of manually entering a date format code, select the desired format from the Date formatting list and apply it to all selected dates. This is especially convenient when you want to switch date formats quickly without remembering format codes.
Related article:
Best Office Productivity Tools
Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time. Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...
Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier
- Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
- Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
- Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
All Kutools add-ins. One installer
Kutools for Office suite bundles add-ins for Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint plus Office Tab Pro, which is ideal for teams working across Office apps.
- All-in-one suite — Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint add-ins + Office Tab Pro
- One installer, one license — set up in minutes (MSI-ready)
- Works better together — streamlined productivity across Office apps
- 30-day full-featured trial — no registration, no credit card
- Best value — save vs buying individual add-in