This formula should fix your problem (where your back-to-front date is
in cell A1):

=DATE(YEAR(A1),DAY(A1),MONTH(A1))

J.

Andrew wrote:

I saved data from a CVS file to Excel. I have a list of dates which display
as mm/dd/yyyy. However, when I try to sort the dates, they are organized by
month first, then day, then year as opposed to year, month, day, which is how
I would like it to sort the info.

I have another list of dates which is being read by Excel as dd/mm/yyyy but
in fact, the way it is organized, should be read as mm/dd/yyyy. So the
digits of 10/03/1962 should stay in the same order and be read as October 03,
1962. But Excel is reading it as March 10, 1962 because when I format the
date to m/dd/yy it reverses the 3 and the 10.