$$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Re : Retaining date format while concatenating

2009-07-27 Thread Jaspal Rehal
Use the following formula =CONCATENATE(A1," ",TEXT(A2,"mm-dd-")) where A1 = Today is and A2 = date Rg On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Radhe Sham L wrote: > Hi Group > > This is a query regarding the date format retention in concatenate > > What happens is while concatenating some text wit

$$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Re : Retaining date format while concatenating

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Schreiner
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 COUL

$$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Re : Retaining date format while concatenating

2009-07-27 Thread Aindril De
Dear Radhe Sham, Use Text(Date,"dd-mmm-yy") while concatenating e.g. "Today is "&Text(Today(),"dd-mmm-yy") will give Today is 27-Jul-09 as result. Please let me know if it helps. Regards, Andy On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Radhe Sham L wrote: > Hi Group > > This is a query regarding the