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Default Merging Date Columns

On Aug 21, 10:20*am, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote:
It depends to some extent whether you've got text in your cells, or dates
formatted in a particular way.
If your 21-Aug is text, you could try =A2&"-"&B2 if you want output as text,
or =--(A20&"-"&B20) and format as a date if you want Excel to treat it as a
date.
If column A contains a date from which you aren't displaying the year, and
you want to ignore the undisplayed year and replace it by 2003 from column
B, try =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)).
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David Biddulph

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I have two columns that I want to merge into one. *The first column is
as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie
2003. * Is there a way to merge the two together? *I have tried the
CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. *I am a fairly
novice/infrequent user of Excel.


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