Question

Excel appears to not have this (unless I missed it), but we’re getting demand for it. And since we try to match Excel for the cell formatting syntax, I’d like to add this in in a way that makes sense.

So any suggestions on how to specify that you want a short/medium/long date/time/datetime formatted in the local layout? In other words I can spec so that in the US I get mm/dd/yy and in Germany yyyy mm dd.

thanks – dave

Answer 1

Actually, you can use the asterisk in the Cell Format menu to choose you cell to display depending on the current system regional settings.

For instance : *06/30/2011 would display differently depending on your system regional settings :

• 06/30/2011 for US or UK (for instance)
• 30/06/2011 for France (for instance)

See here for more information.