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Part 2 Using Text To Column Select the cells containing the dates you want to convert. Go to the "Data" tab in Excel's ribbon and click on "Text to Columns." ... Choose "Delimited" and click "Next." ... Select the delimiter that separates the dates (e.g., comma or space) or choose "Fixed width" if there is no delimiter.

In your Excel worksheet, format the dates exactly as you want the text strings to look like. Select all of the dates you want to convert and press Ctrl+C to copy them. Open Notepad or any other text editor, and paste the copied dates there. Notepad automatically converts the dates to the text format.

Dates with periods are a common format for dates in many parts of the world. In this format, the date is written with the day, month, and year separated by periods. For example, the date January 1st, 2022 would be written as 01.01. 22.

American usage calls for a month/day/year date format, the United Kingdom and much of Europe use a day/month/year format, and most countries in Asia use the year/month/day format.

Overview FormulaDescription=TEXT(TODAY(),"MM/DD/YY")Today's date in MM/DD/YY format, like 03/14/12=TEXT(TODAY(),"DDDD")Today's day of the week, like Monday=TEXT(NOW(),"H:MM AM/PM")Current time, like PM=TEXT(0.285,"0.0%")Percentage, like 28.5%7 more rows

In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. Thus, ?January 1, 2011? is widely considered to be correct. In formal usage, it is not appropriate to omit the year, or to use a purely numerical form of the date.

Date/Time Format Codes FormatDateMM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt08/05/2006 :15 PMM/d/yy h :m:s tt8/5/06 3: PMddd MMM dd yyyySat Aug 05 2006dddd, MMMM dd yyyySaturday, August 05 2006