Excel Dates

[Always Learning]

Hi Guys,

Can you help me with a little problem.

I am running a macro on a csv file.
There are 4 dates in the format dd/mm/yy and I format them to dd mmm yyyy.
So the cell A1 originally has the value 25/12/05, I format it so the cell A1
now has 25 Dec 2005
When I try to concatenate "Date Reported : " & A1. Instead of getting Date
Reported : 25 Dec 2005 I get Date Reported : 25/12/05 Cell A1 is back in
it's original format although on the screen it is showing as the new format
I.E. 25 Dec 2005

What is going on here? how do I get the cell to keep it's new format so when
I use the value from the cell it's the correct format.

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,

Steve Wilson.

 

[Niek Otten]

Hi Steve,

="Date Reported: "&TEXT(A1,"dd mmm yyyy")

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi

Try
="Date Reported : "&TEXT(A1,"dd mmm yyyy")

 

[Always Learning]

Hi Guys,

That's perfect.

Thanks for the quick response I really appreciate it.

Happy new year.

All the best,

Steve Wilson.

 

[Always Learning]

Hi Niek,
Sorry about cross posting it's because I needed a quick answer.

I keep getting an error on the "&TEXT(A1,"dd mmm yyyy") saying sub or
function unknown. Is this because I am doing this in VBA?
The actual piece of code I am trying to use is:
HoldPrevYearDate = "Previous Year: " & Text(A1, "dd mmm yyyy")

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

Steve Wilson.

 

[Dave Peterson]

And if you really needed VBA, you could use:


Dim HoldPrevYearDate As String

HoldPrevYearDate = "Previous Year: " _
& Format(activeworkbook.worksheets("sheet99").range("a1").value, "dd mmm yyyy")