It's easy to change the date format in Microsoft Excel. You just need to use the "Date" drop-down menu, which gives you plenty of options.

When you add a date, it uses a predefined format. Even though you need a format like 02/08/2021, Excel Online and Google Sheets may use something else, like 08-02-2021.

How to Auto-Format the Date in MS Excel. When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to ...

You don’t need a complex expression to add conditional formatting to a filtered PivotTable in Microsoft Excel.

To ensure that a date column is used correctly, you can effectively insert a calendar in Excel, using an Excel date picker.