Your sample formula is kind of messed up by the special characters in that
formatting string.

Are you sure you use yyyy to indicate years in the =text() formula?

If you're not using an English version of excel, you'll want to share what
you're using.

I'd use this (in the USA):

=text(a1,"yyyymmdd")
or
=text(a1;"yyyymmdd")
(with the semicolon as the list separator)

You may want to type a date in a cell, then use format|Cells|number tab
and choose special and then use the equivalent of:
yyyymmdd



Mia wrote:

I´m trying to do a sheet make o new date format. The new format should be
yyyymmdd. I have 2008-07-01 (yyyy-mm-dd), but it responds 20080001.
The formula I´m using are =TEXT(cell; "ååååmmdd"), do anyone know what´s
wrong?

BR
Mia

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Dave Peterson