Applies to
- Pro
- Business
- Enterprise
Capabilities
Who can use this capability
Editors, Admins, and the sheet Owner can apply a date format in a sheet.
Anyone shared to the sheet can view the date format that has been applied.
Apply standardized date formats in your sheet
You can apply a date format which will be interpreted in the same manner for everyone on your team, regardless of their Regional Preferences they’ve set in their Smartsheet account.
Depending on locale, you might read a numerically formatted date in a different order from colleagues—for example: MM/DD/YY versus DD/MM/YY.
The formatting options discussed here can only be applied to Date type columns at this time.
Apply a format to the whole column
In your sheet:
- Select the date column header at the top to select the entire column.
- Select the Date Format in the toolbar.
- Select the desired date format.
That’s it! Applying a format this way ensures that all current and future dates typed in the Date column will have your desired formatting.
Apply to specific cells
You can also select individual or groups of cells to apply date formatting to in a more specific manner. Keep in mind that when you apply formatting in this way, new information added to other cells in your Date column won’t have the same formatting.
How date formats appear to collaborators
When you apply a different date format to a column, it will appear standardized to all collaborators on the sheet. Depending on your Regional Settings, months and days of long form date formats will also appear localized in the following languages:
- English
- Spanish
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Japanese
Standardized date formatting does not apply to automated workflows.