Formatting today()
LurfysMa, something like this
="Printed on: " & TEXT(TODAY(), "MM/DD/YY")
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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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I want to generate the text: "Printed on mm/dd/yy." where "mm/dd/yy"
is replaced by the value from today().
If I put "today()" in a cell by itself, it displays as 12/24/06.
But if I enter this code:
=CONCATENATE("Printed on ",TODAY())
it displays as: "Printed on 39075.".
The only solution I could come up with is:
=CONCATENATE("Printed on
",MONTH(TODAY()),"/",DAY(TODAY()),"/",YEAR(TODAY()),".")
which is ugly.
Is there no "format" function that would allow me to write something
like this:
=CONCATENATE("Printed on ",FORMAT(TODAY(),"U"))
where the "U" is short for USA format (mm/dd/yy)?
Ideally, the Today function would have accepted a format parameter,
like =today("U").
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Running Excel 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000
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