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Default VLOOKUP return text not date

All you need to do is to format the cell containing the VLOOKUP formula as a
date,
Regards,
Alan.
"Paul Dennis" wrote in message
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I am using VLOOKUP to return a date, however it returns the number of the
date, rather than the date. I know that Excel stores dates as numbers,
hence
how do I get around this?