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Format Date along with Text
Cell A1 contains the date: December 31, 2008
I want cell A2 to display "Dec Before" I tried =A1&" Before" which returned: 39813 Before I tried =(MONTH(A1))&" Before" which returned: 12 Before I can format the date as Dec just fine until I add the &" Before" to it. When I add the &" Before" in the formula it forces the Dec to read as 12. How do I force the 12 back to read Dec? |
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Format Date along with Text
In A2, try Custom formats
For example, the format mmmm "before" will yield December before "Joe" wrote: Cell A1 contains the date: December 31, 2008 I want cell A2 to display "Dec Before" I tried =A1&" Before" which returned: 39813 Before I tried =(MONTH(A1))&" Before" which returned: 12 Before I can format the date as Dec just fine until I add the &" Before" to it. When I add the &" Before" in the formula it forces the Dec to read as 12. How do I force the 12 back to read Dec? |
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One way:
=TEXT(A1,"mmm B\efor\e") In article , Joe wrote: Cell A1 contains the date: December 31, 2008 I want cell A2 to display "Dec Before" I tried =A1&" Before" which returned: 39813 Before I tried =(MONTH(A1))&" Before" which returned: 12 Before I can format the date as Dec just fine until I add the &" Before" to it. When I add the &" Before" in the formula it forces the Dec to read as 12. How do I force the 12 back to read Dec? |
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Format Date along with Text
And if you just want to *display* Dec Before,
A2: =A1 Format A2 with Format/Cell/Number/Custom mmm B\efor\e In article , JE McGimpsey wrote: One way: =TEXT(A1,"mmm B\efor\e") |
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