EXCEL - how to prevent excel from changing a date to a number?
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I want to cell to take a # from cell A1, then say "units as of " and then paste the date in cell B1 all into C1. Each time the date in cell B1 converts to a number. I am using =A1&" units as of "&B1 What am I doing wrong? I have gone to format and made sure it is set to the date. Even if I change the format to general it still stays as a number.
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Answer:
Try in C1: =IF(AND(A1<>"",B1<>""),A1& " units as of " & TEXT(B1,"m/d/yyyy"),"") Note: 'Dates' in Excel are numbers. They can be represented differently through the use of formatting, but the underlying value in a cell containing a date is a numeric value.
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