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I have date in cell a1 with dd-mmm-yy format.
On the same sheet, I have another cell with "Allocation for " & A1 The result gives me Allocation for 39512 Required result is Allocation for 05-Mar-08 I dont understand why excel is unhappy with my format of dd-mmm-yy Any ideas? Regards, Madiya |
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To Excel, dates are represented by the
number of days the date is from 31-DEC-1899. 01-JAN-1900 is 1 11-MAR-2008 is 39,521 When you format a cell as date, Excel is only *displaying* the number in a format that humans can understand is a date. So, you'll need to convert the number to text. Try this: ="Allocation for "&TEXT(A1,"dd-mmm-yy") Does that help? Post back if you have more questions. -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) (XL2003, Win XP) "Madiya" wrote in message ... I have date in cell a1 with dd-mmm-yy format. On the same sheet, I have another cell with "Allocation for " & A1 The result gives me Allocation for 39512 Required result is Allocation for 05-Mar-08 I dont understand why excel is unhappy with my format of dd-mmm-yy Any ideas? Regards, Madiya |
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On Mar 14, 6:25*pm, "Ron Coderre"
wrote: To Excel, dates are represented by the number of days the date is from 31-DEC-1899. 01-JAN-1900 is 1 11-MAR-2008 is 39,521 When you format a cell as date, Excel is only *displaying* the number in a format that humans can understand is a date. So, you'll need to convert the number to text. Try this: ="Allocation for "&TEXT(A1,"dd-mmm-yy") Does that help? Post back if you have more questions. -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) (XL2003, Win XP) "Madiya" wrote in message ... I have date in cell a1 with dd-mmm-yy format. On the same sheet, I have another cell with "Allocation for " & A1 The result gives me Allocation for 39512 Required result is Allocation for 05-Mar-08 I dont understand why excel is unhappy with my format of dd-mmm-yy Any ideas? Regards, Madiya- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Perfact. Thanks. I was trying with format and date instead of text. Regards, Madiya |
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You're welcome.....I'm glad I could help.
Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) (XL2003, Win XP) "Madiya" wrote in message ... On Mar 14, 6:25 pm, "Ron Coderre" wrote: To Excel, dates are represented by the number of days the date is from 31-DEC-1899. 01-JAN-1900 is 1 11-MAR-2008 is 39,521 When you format a cell as date, Excel is only *displaying* the number in a format that humans can understand is a date. So, you'll need to convert the number to text. Try this: ="Allocation for "&TEXT(A1,"dd-mmm-yy") Does that help? Post back if you have more questions. -------------------------- Regards, Ron Microsoft MVP (Excel) (XL2003, Win XP) "Madiya" wrote in message ... I have date in cell a1 with dd-mmm-yy format. On the same sheet, I have another cell with "Allocation for " & A1 The result gives me Allocation for 39512 Required result is Allocation for 05-Mar-08 I dont understand why excel is unhappy with my format of dd-mmm-yy Any ideas? Regards, Madiya- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Perfact. Thanks. I was trying with format and date instead of text. Regards, Madiya |
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