Workday Worksheets date format - default to user system settings possible?

[excelgal2016]

Is there a way for the Workday Worksheets to reflect the user system settings of the date format? Currently our report administrator had "hard formatted" the date format to:

mm/dd/yyyy

However, we have a mixture of global employees, some of them have date format

dd/mm/yyyy.

This creates a problem, when we are copying > pasting the data into Excel.

Any ideas?

I know there is a workaround by manually changing the settings File > Settings > Locale. Alternatively, is there a way to making the Locale default to User WD setting?

I'd appreciate any help, WD is not my domain, Excel forever

 

[Rhodie72]

I think the best way is to get the numeric date code from the spreadsheet

06-27-2024 = 45470 = 27/06/2024

So all you have to do is set the date format correctly.
Copy&paste has loads of issues but if you use VBA it circumvents many such problems. To help you, here's a little macro you can run to change each cell to the correct date format so your American spreadsheet data remains intact.

Save it to your personal macros workbook and to call it press Alt+F8. If you are really advanced and feel like messing with the ribbon, you can add a specific button and creat your own custom icon so you click a button on the screen.

Sub Date_Format()
'
' Date_Format Macro
'

'
    Selection.NumberFormat = "dd-mm-yyyy" 'British format; European format "yyyy-mm-dd"; American [backwards] format mm-dd-yyyy (they had to be different to the colonials lol)

End Sub