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    How to combine a text cell with a date cell so that date does not convert?

    Hello Brilliant People Who Know Way More Than I Do,

    Please see the attached example.

    In cell B3, I use VLOOKUP to combine the date in B1 with a suffix depending on what was selected in cell B2. The expected result was 051515FLK but the date converts so the result is 42139FLK. How can I keep this from happening? Tried using DATE but got weird results so I did something wrong...

    Thanks in advance!
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    Re: How to combine a text cell with a date cell so that date does not convert?

    Try: =TEXT(B1,"DDMMYY")&"FLK"
    and to make it dynamic, just replace "FLK" with the vlookup function.

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    Re: How to combine a text cell with a date cell so that date does not convert?

    try this

    =TEXT(B1,"mmddyyyy")&"FLK"

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    05152015FLK
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    Re: How to combine a text cell with a date cell so that date does not convert?

    YOU ROCK!!! Wasted too much time using the wrong function but you taught me something new!! Thank you!

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