Here's a guess at what you might need...

For A1: (a date)
B1: ="This is my date: "&TEXT(A1,"mm/dd/yyy")

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro


"Hazeltine" wrote:

How can I put text and dates into one cell without loosing the date format.
I can use & and concatenate but the date format always gets lost.