Of course, You will need to change the result to a value before deleting the
original columns.

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Don Guillett" wrote in message
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=DATEVALUE(b2 &"-"&a2)
or
=DATEVALUE(b2 &"-"&a2&"-"&8)
then format as desired
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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Francis Hookham" wrote in message
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A visually handicapped friend is secretary of his club.

He receives a list of events on a spreadsheet where the date is given as
follows:



Col A contains "Jan"

Col B contains "1"

Col C contains "Tuesday" (which is superfluous in this operation)

We know the year is 2008



I am having difficulty in concatenating "1" and "Jan" and "08" into Col
D, formatted as "d mmm yy", so I can do away with Cols A-C



(Not decided yet whether to simply drag a fromua down the cut and past
values back, or the run a macro which might save time in long run because
it could delete empty rows at same time)



Please help, it's going to take me hours by hand otherwise.



Francis Hookham