Question

I have two cells in Excel. one has a string and the other one has a date. in the third cell I want to put the date and the string together. For example:

A1 = "This "
A2 = "03/03/1982"

I want A3 to be:

This 03/03/1982

when I try to put this in the A3 formula: = A1 & A2 it returns some funny numerical value for the date and does not give me the literal date.

Answer 1

Don’t know if it’s the best way but I’d do this:

=A1 & TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy")

That should format your date into your desired string.

Edit: That funny number you saw is the number of days between December 31st 1899 and your date. That’s how Excel stores dates.