Further to the formatting of cells/columns to hold dates (Format -> Cells: Category Dates) which then have a configurable display format.
The date pattern acceptance formats can be extended (Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages: Language Of "Date acceptance patterns") Beyond defaults, append the text format of any textual content that you need to convert into dates. =-ref-= https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Languages#Date_acceptance_patterns -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Formatting-a-date-tp4140660p4140683.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted