Using "&" with a date
 

I feel like I should be able to figure this out as it seems like it
would be simple, but I'm stumped.

- I input a date (April 6, 2006) in cell A1. Cell A1 is formatted for
Dates.
- I then type this into cell D1:

="Sales total for "&A1

I want my result to read "Sales total for April 6, 2006"
but instead I get "Sales total for 38813"

It's putting the date in its numeric value. I've tried formatting D1 as
Date, as Text, but nothing seems to work.

Help?

Thanks


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Try

="Sales total for "&TEXT(A1,"mmmm d, yyyy")

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"LACA" wrote in message
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I feel like I should be able to figure this out as it seems like it
would be simple, but I'm stumped.

- I input a date (April 6, 2006) in cell A1. Cell A1 is formatted for
Dates.
- I then type this into cell D1:

="Sales total for "&A1

I want my result to read "Sales total for April 6, 2006"
but instead I get "Sales total for 38813"

It's putting the date in its numeric value. I've tried formatting D1 as
Date, as Text, but nothing seems to work.

Help?

Thanks


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="Sales total for " & text(a1,"dd/mm/yyyy")

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LACA Wrote:
I feel like I should be able to figure this out as it seems like it
would be simple, but I'm stumped.

- I input a date (April 6, 2006) in cell A1. Cell A1 is formatted for
Dates.
- I then type this into cell D1:

="Sales total for "&A1

I want my result to read "Sales total for April 6, 2006"
but instead I get "Sales total for 38813"

It's putting the date in its numeric value. I've tried formatting D1 as
Date, as Text, but nothing seems to work.

Help?

Thanks


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Thank you both!


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