Use the following formula =CONCATENATE(A1," ",TEXT(A2,"mm-dd-yyyy"))
where A1 = Today is and A2 = date Rg On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Radhe Sham L<radhes...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
