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Default change custom format number to text

i have a long colum of custom formated dates i need to change them into text
in order to prosses them -the custom format is dd/mm/yyyy h:mm the cell reads
01/09/2005 9:30 the number that shows up is 38596.39583 when i try to convert
the format to standard text. is there a function that will do this for me?
 
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