Showing a calculated Date as a string
MyDate = Date
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="FinYear", _
RefersTo:="=""" & Format(MyDate,"dd mmm yyyy") & """
? Activeworkbook.Names("FinYear").RefersTo
="26 Sep 2004"
Looks like it works to me. Perhaps you wanted something else.
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Tom Ogilvy
"Pavlos" wrote in message
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Sorry, but I tried this and it doesnt seem to work.
I already used a similar statement higher up in my code. Only difference
is
I said
MyDate=Format(mydate,"Short Date")
Showing the text on the screen as a msgbox isn't a problem. When I try to
assign the string to a name or save to the sheet it still gives me the
serial
no 37986
I want it to say "29 February 2004" as text
I have tried these statements:
Sheets("MySheet").Range("C5").Value = strMyDate
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="FinYear", RefersToR1C1:=strMyDate
Hope this is clear. It seems a little hard to explain!
Pavlos
"Niek Otten" wrote:
Hi Pavlos,
a$=Format(mydate,"dd mmm yyyy")
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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel
"Pavlos" wrote in message
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In my code I have calculated the date using the DateSerial command.
This seems to work fine and gives the correct date when I use:
Debug.Print MyDate
29 Feb 2004
However I'm trying now to assign this date to a name as a string so
that I
can use it in concatenated text.
I also don't want to write the value directly to the spreadsheet, so
the
instruction I am using is
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="FinYear", RefersTo:=MyDate
Ths is not saving the date a a string but instead is giving me a
serial no
value.
Can anybody tell me a way around this?
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