Use the simple formula N()

A1 = Date (Shortcut to put date:Ctrl + semicolon)
A2 =N(A1) to convert date to serial number
A3 =TEXT(A2,"dd-mm-yyyy") to convert it back to Date. You can provide your
format.

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Jacob Skaria


"callbr549" wrote:

I want to convert a date value to the serial number for that date and store
it in a string variable for later manipulation. All I can get is the value
stored in a date format, for example "3/27/2009". The spreadsheet I'm
working on uses the Excel Concatenate function to add a suffix to a date, and
the date comes out in serial number format. So for example, adding "1" to
today's date, the resulting cell reads "398991", but when I try to do the
same thing in VBA I can only get the resulting string to be "3/24/20091".