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Asked: 2026-05-19T04:52:28+00:00

I have an excel file filled with data my customer wants placed into a

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I have an excel file filled with data my customer wants placed into a database. I’ve generated a column along the left of the data that looks like this (obviously changed the field names for here):

="INSERT INTO TBL_CUSTOMER
                      (FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, CUSTOMER_DATE_REGISTERED)
VALUES     ('"&D2&"','"&E2&"','"&F2&"','"&G2&"','"&H2&"','"&I2&"','"&J2&"','"&K2&"','"&L2&"','"&M2&"','"&N2&"','"&O2&"','"&P2&"','"&Q2&"','"&R2&"','"&S2&"','"&T2&"','"&U2&"','"&V2&"','"&W2&"','"&X2&"','"&Y2&"','"&Z2&"','"&AA2&"','"&AB2&"','"&AC2&"')"

Everything works perfectly but the problem is that the last item (Cell AC2) is a date in the format 25/12/2010 08:45:45. Excel is reading this as 40537.3651041667.

Any idea how to make it appear correctly?

Hope you guys can help!

Edit: Nomatted what i set the cell format to for AC2 I still get that random number pulled into the query

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the TEXT() function…

    TEXT(AC2, "dd/mm/yyy hh:mm:ss")

    This returns a string from a value in the specified format

    ="INSERT INTO TBL_CUSTOMER
                      (FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, FIELD, 
                      FIELD, FIELD, CUSTOMER_DATE_REGISTERED)
VALUES 
    ('"&D2&"','"&E2&"','"&F2&"','"&G2&"','"&H2&"','"&I2&"','"&J2&"','"&K2&"','"&L2&"','"&M2&"','"&N2&"','"&O2&"','"&P2&"','"&Q2&"','"&R2&"','"&S2&"','"&T2&"','"&U2&"','"&V2&"','"&W2&"','"&X2&"','"&Y2&"','"&Z2&"','"&AA2&"','"&AB2&"',
'"&TEXT(AC2, "dd/mm/yyy hh:mm:ss")&"')"
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