How to change the date format in Microsoft Excel We're using a spreadsheet that includes dates of hire for employees of a fictitious company, to show different ways to format dates in Excel.

You can change the date & time format in Google Sheets & Excel Online using this guide. Use different date & time formats in spreadsheets.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.