Format the colmun you exporting into as 'text' then try going 'data'...'text
to columns'...click next, then next again. You will then see a drop down
menu in the column data format area that contains date formats, select y/m/d
and it should display as you wish.

"Angel" wrote:

have fields in third party program which when exported to Excel are
autoformatted to date. Ex: 3-8-18 autmatically becomes 3/18/2018.
How do I disable this? Can only export to Excel - program creates new
workbook.