You have to keep in mind that what YOU see as a date is actually a number FORMATTED as a date. the Display format of "Date" is much the same as "blue", or "bold".
so.. if you're concatenating strings together and wanted to keep the "blue/bold" FORMATTING in the combined string... I suppose it COULD be done, but not easily. For the Date, however, it's not TOO difficult. But you will have to hard-code the date format. For instance, using: ="Today is: " & TEXT(A5,"dd-mmm-yy") will result in: "Today is: 27-Jul-09" but if you were to change the format of the Date in A5 to: 07/27/2009, it would not change the concatenated string. To manage THAT (changing dynamically) you'd have to write a VBA script to read the formatting. hope this helps. paul ________________________________ From: Radhe Sham L <radhes...@gmail.com> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:08:26 AM Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Re : Retaining date format while concatenating Hi Group This is a query regarding the date format retention in concatenate What happens is while concatenating some text with a cell containing date, the out put is text with the date in number format whereas ther equirement is date format Output for eg " Today is 40021" ; required out put is Today is 27-Jul-09" Any solution for this plz Regards Radhe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 5,200 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
