I am attempting to convert a date to text, and am having trouble with
the formatting. Specifically, I wish to convert a date in the form mm/
dd/yyyy to text in exactly the same format.

I am using excel 2000.

Using the command =Text(Text,text-format), I am having trouble with
the format piece.

"Help" tell me that the format code is based on he "format cells
numeric" definitions. My problem is that the code appears to be a
number, and nowhere can I find what number produces what defined text
format!

Can someone either give me the code I need, or point mwe ni the right
direction to get an answwer.

Thanks in advance

Maybe

=TEXT(A1,"mm/dd/yyyy")

or

=TEXT(DATE(2008,10,4),"mm/dd/yyyy")

Mike

"JHB" wrote:

I am attempting to convert a date to text, and am having trouble with
the formatting. Specifically, I wish to convert a date in the form mm/
dd/yyyy to text in exactly the same format.

I am using excel 2000.

Using the command =Text(Text,text-format), I am having trouble with
the format piece.

"Help" tell me that the format code is based on he "format cells
numeric" definitions. My problem is that the code appears to be a
number, and nowhere can I find what number produces what defined text
format!

Can someone either give me the code I need, or point mwe ni the right
direction to get an answwer.

Thanks in advance

=TEXT(A1,"mm/dd/yyyy")

Assumes you have a valid date in A1


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 05:45:03 -0700 (PDT), JHB wrote:

I am attempting to convert a date to text, and am having trouble with
the formatting. Specifically, I wish to convert a date in the form mm/
dd/yyyy to text in exactly the same format.

I am using excel 2000.

Using the command =Text(Text,text-format), I am having trouble with
the format piece.

"Help" tell me that the format code is based on he "format cells
numeric" definitions. My problem is that the code appears to be a
number, and nowhere can I find what number produces what defined text
format!

Can someone either give me the code I need, or point mwe ni the right
direction to get an answwer.

Thanks in advance