The date will display in the format you choose, no matter how you enter it. If you type "1/1/19" into a cell with the long date format, Excel will change it to the expanded date.

Even though you need a format like 02/08/2021, Excel Online and Google Sheets may use something else, like 08-02-2021. At times, you might not like such a change due to a lack of familiarity.

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Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.