in cell a2 i have the date 1/31/12
in another cell i have
and i am getting the outputconcatenate("received on ",a2)
"received on 40939" in place of the date.
is there anyway to get this to display the Gregorian date as opposed to the number off of the base date?
Last edited by NBVC; 02-13-2012 at 01:14 PM.
try:
concatenate("received on ",TEXT(A2,"d/m/yy"))
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thank you very much. this saves me a lot of headache
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