If you look at the numbers he/she got the first one 39710 is the serial
number for the date 09/19/08 using US format which makes me believe the
value in his first cell is not 2008 but the real date formatted as YYYY and
this part

39710.604976388939710


is equal to

9/19/2008 2:31:10 PM

so I suspect he/she might have a formula like NOW() in a cell and has
formatted it as YYYY and maybe the next cell as MM etc





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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"Sheeloo" wrote in message
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No. Morrison who posted the problem....

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Are you addressing me?

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Peo Sjoblom

"Sheeloo" wrote in message
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This shoud work. Did you test this out?

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Looks like you have real dates and times in your cells

=TEXT(A1,"YYYY")&TEXT(B1,"MM")&TEXT(C1,"DD")&" - "&D1





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Peo Sjoblom

"rmorrison" wrote in message
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The value now displays

39710.604976388939710.604976388939710.6049763889-101

It should display 20080919-0101. It doesn't seem to be working.

"Sheeloo" wrote:

Requirement not clear. Do you want YYYYMMDD-#### in a cell and you
have
all
the components in different cells?

Enter this in F1
=A1&B1$C1&"-"&D1 assuming you have the above in Col A-D


"rmorrison" wrote:

I have YYYY, MM, and DD entered in separate cells in Excel 2007.
I
want to
create a new Job Number with YYYYMMDD-####, where #### is a new
job
which is
attached to the date string. How do I do this?