This article will teach you how to change the date format in Microsoft Excel to have a uniform structure across your spreadsheet.

Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

Create a custom date format based on one of Excel's standard date templates. For example, set all months to display as two digits by adding another "M" to the month format code.

If numbers keep changing to dates automatically in Excel or if Excel changes dates to random numbers then this post will help you fix the issue.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

The ramifications of missing a due date can range from simply adjusting the date to getting fired. Don't take chances with deadlines when a simple conditional format can remind you.