With your date/time value in A2, use the following in an empty column & copy
down:
=TEXT(A2,"dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm")

If using VBA, you can use the Format function with pretty much the same
arguments. Both functions do essentially the same thing: convert a numerical
value into text with the specified formatting.

HTH,
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George Nicholson

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"joey" wrote in message
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i have a long colum of custom formated dates i need to change them into
text
in order to prosses them -the custom format is dd/mm/yyyy h:mm the cell
reads
01/09/2005 9:30 the number that shows up is 38596.39583 when i try to
convert
the format to standard text. is there a function that will do this for me?