works fine - thanks


"JethroUK©" wrote in message
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that's fine

so how will i emmbed this in a string e.g.

="Bill" & TEXT(A1,"yyyymmdd") & "Ben"



"Miguel Zapico" wrote in message
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You can try with TEXT, like this:
=TEXT(A1,"yyyymmdd")

Miguel.

"JethroUK©" wrote:

p.s. i also tried cell formatting as yyyymmdd, then = "Hello" & A1 -
but
it
doesn't import the format to a string


"JethroUK©" wrote in message
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How would i convert a date to number as a string

e.g. 10/05/2005 "20050510"

note the month is 2 digit - 05

i cant see Format(A1,"yyyy,mm,dd") & i tried = year(a1) & month(a1)
&
day(a1)

but it returns month as single "2005510"