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JE McGimpsey
 
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Default Date format in string

One way:

="Week Beginning" & TEXT(Date-WEEKDAY(Date, 3), "dd/mm/yyyy")


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Adam Thwaites wrote:

I have this code:
="Week Beginning " & Date-WEEKDAY(Date,3)
which I can't stop coming out as:
Week Beginning 38719

I tried:
="Week Beginning " & format((Date-WEEKDAY(Date,3)),"dd" & "/" & "mm" & "/" &
"yyyy")
but that just comes up as #NAME

Any suggestions?