="The contractor will provide insurance by " & TEXT(A8,"m/d/yyyy") & " and
start work.."

Hope this helps,
Gary Brown

"Brushie76" wrote in message
...
I am trying to display the date as 1/21/05 in a cell that contains a
formula
with the date nested between text... i.e.

="The contractor will provide insurance by "&(Cell A8)&" and start
work....

I have a front page where I input all my project criteria including dates
and then I have documents that have similar verbage as above and have
dates
within in them... I currently stop my text right before the cell where
the
date will be displayed and then start the text after the date cell... I
dont
like doing it this way.