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When using & and a date-formatted cell in a formula I lose the for
Hi all,
If I have a serial number (such as 39401) representing a date, and formatting a date) which displays 11/15/2007 in A2, and I want to join that with text in a cell A3 using the following formula: ="Start Date: "&A2 The result is: Start date: 39401 Not: Start date: 11/15/2007 So I understand that Excel loses the formatting of the number in the cell as soon as I use the & to concantenate text to it, but I can't find a function that will turn the value (39401) into a date when used in a formula... Any ideas? TIA, Jeff |
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When using & and a date-formatted cell in a formula I lose the for
Hi Jeff,
="Start Date: "&TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy") -- Kind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel "Jeff Stouse" wrote in message ... | Hi all, | | If I have a serial number (such as 39401) representing a date, and | formatting a date) which displays 11/15/2007 in A2, and I want to join that | with text in a cell A3 using the following formula: | | ="Start Date: "&A2 | | The result is: | | Start date: 39401 | | Not: | | Start date: 11/15/2007 | | So I understand that Excel loses the formatting of the number in the cell as | soon as I use the & to concantenate text to it, but I can't find a function | that will turn the value (39401) into a date when used in a formula... | | Any ideas? | | TIA, | Jeff | |
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When using & and a date-formatted cell in a formula I lose thefor
Try it this way:
="Start Date: "&TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy") Hope this helps. Pete On Dec 5, 8:39 pm, Jeff Stouse wrote: Hi all, If I have a serial number (such as 39401) representing a date, and formatting a date) which displays 11/15/2007 in A2, and I want to join that with text in a cell A3 using the following formula: ="Start Date: "&A2 The result is: Start date: 39401 Not: Start date: 11/15/2007 So I understand that Excel loses the formatting of the number in the cell as soon as I use the & to concantenate text to it, but I can't find a function that will turn the value (39401) into a date when used in a formula... Any ideas? TIA, Jeff |
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