Date Conversion - sorry

[DTTODGG]

OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one that
suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.

I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)

I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.

So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text? then
add the hyphen? then add the number?

It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep getting
the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.

[Niek Otten]

=TEXT(D2,"yyyymmdd")&"-"&TEXT(K5,"#")

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"DTTODGG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one
> that
> suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.
>
> I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
> I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)
>
> I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.
>
> So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text? then
> add the hyphen? then add the number?
>
> It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep getting
> the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.
>
>

[Niek Otten]

Or, if you always want to copy K2, no matter if it has decimals,

=TEXT(D2,"yyyymmdd")&"-"&K5

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Niek Otten" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> =TEXT(D2,"yyyymmdd")&"-"&TEXT(K5,"#")
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Niek Otten
>
> "DTTODGG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one
>> that
>> suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.
>>
>> I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
>> I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)
>>
>> I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.
>>
>> So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text?
>> then
>> add the hyphen? then add the number?
>>
>> It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep
>> getting
>> the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.
>>
>>
>
>

[bpeltzer]

=TEXT(D2,"yyyymmdd")&"-"&K5. If you need to force the suffix to a certain
number of digits, you could use &text(k5,"0000") instead of just &K5.

"DTTODGG" wrote:

> OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one that
> suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.
>
> I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
> I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)
>
> I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.
>
> So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text? then
> add the hyphen? then add the number?
>
> It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep getting
> the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.
>
>

[Ron Coderre]

I have no idea what you're doing....but, I think this will do it:

=TEXT(D2,"yyyymmdd")&"-"&K5

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron


"DTTODGG" wrote:

> OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one that
> suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.
>
> I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
> I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)
>
> I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.
>
> So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text? then
> add the hyphen? then add the number?
>
> It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep getting
> the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.
>
>

[DTTODGG]

Thank you guys SOoooo much - you wouldn't want to see the combinations I've
tried. :-)

"DTTODGG" wrote:

> OK, guys, I've read a plethora of posts about DATE, but can't find one that
> suits my situation. It's probably out there somewhere,... please help.
>
> I have a cell D2 it's formated as a date 03/01/04 field
> I have another numeric field in K5 (just numbers e.g. 3428)
>
> I want cell J2 to be 20040301-3428.
>
> So, do I need to convert D2 to a data yyyymmdd? then convert to text? then
> add the hyphen? then add the number?
>
> It's probably simple, but I've spent too much time on this. I keep getting
> the serial date or whatever that 38,889 number is.
>
>