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Leviathan
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How to use Edate function in different date format

Hi,

I want to use Edate function in excel in U.K. date format i.e. 23th December,2017; 23/12/2017. But when i use this function with the format it returns a !Value error, however this function work fine with U.S. date format i.e. 12/23/2017.

Please help me in this regard.

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affan
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Hi @Leviathan,

 

Change your system windows date format. If you are using windows 8 or above, go to settings and then 'change the date and time format'.

 

Change the short date format to dd-MMM-yy

 

If this helped you, please mark this post as an accepted solution and like to give KUDOS .

 

Regards,

Affan

 

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affan
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Hi @Leviathan,

 

Change your system windows date format. If you are using windows 8 or above, go to settings and then 'change the date and time format'.

 

Change the short date format to dd-MMM-yy

 

If this helped you, please mark this post as an accepted solution and like to give KUDOS .

 

Regards,

Affan

 

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