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I would like to input dates in an Excel worksheet using Swedish format dd/mm, however Excel interprets this as mm/dd. That is, writing "7/8" in a cell is converted into Excel date (2019-07-08, YYYY-MM-DD). Other questions asked refer to changing mm/dd/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy, which can be done through Windows settings, however I can't find a way of changing the mm/dd format.
A string based solution would work as suggested in some answers, however the reason I am asking is because I was manually inputting dates from a list of dates in dd/mm format, and it was annoying to have to twist every date in my head, or (while it would obviously work and be more robust) to have to set up e.g. two columns for month and day.
3Check Excel's locale setting. If that's set to Sweden's standard, it should accept dates in dd/mm rather than mm/dd. Once the dates are understood correctly, you can play with the format to display it the way you want. – fixer1234 – 2019-02-11T11:26:07.103
@fixer1234 I followed this guide: https://www.webucator.com/how-to/how-set-locale-microsoft-excel.cfm, Locale (in my Swedish Excel it says "Language") is set to Swedish, still doesn't work. Can I change Locale setting someplace else?
– Toivo Säwén – 2019-02-11T11:28:39.770I don't have ready access to Excel, but that link looks like it deals with just the display format. There should be application settings in the main menu with a locale setting that controls how Excel views everything. – fixer1234 – 2019-02-11T11:32:29.257
@fixer1234 I agree :) can't find it... – Toivo Säwén – 2019-02-11T11:33:03.487
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Check this out. The link is for Excel 2016, but it's probably similar: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/excel-tips/understanding-regional-differences-in-excel/1/
– fixer1234 – 2019-02-11T11:34:55.300Just following up. Did that link get you to the Excel locale setting? – fixer1234 – 2019-02-11T23:13:07.863
@fixer1234 Thanks for checking in, that did take me to the locale setting which was set to follow Windows, however this didn't fix the specific issue (no way in Windows of setting how to interpret a XX/YY date). – Toivo Säwén – 2019-02-12T08:32:00.990