Select the cell which will place the text result type this formula TEXT A1hhmmss AMPM press Enter key.

Text function excel time format. With the VALUE function you can also convert a cell having the date and time which is formatted as text. Example if your time value 10015 is contained in cell A1 you can convert it into a text by doing. When we want to display dates in a specified format When we wish to display numbers in a specified format or in a more legible way When we wish to combine numbers with text or characters.

7 Find Replace. You can use the TEXT function to embed formatted numbers inside text. Today I will show you how to format convert number date time currency and so on using two functions.

If format is not supplied a string is returned. Sometimes the time in excel is recognized by it in text format. MyStr FormatTime Long Time Returns current system date in the system-defined long date format.

Select the cell right-click and choose FORMAT Cell excel. Unfortunately when you combine text and formatted numbers like dates times currency etc Excel doesnt know how you want to display them so it drops the number formatting. Select the Custom category and click a format code.

Date to text format Verified 2 days ago. Excel gives you a life preview of how the time will be formatted under Sample. TEXT function and Format function.

MyStr FormatMyTime hhmmss AMPM Returns 050423 PM. As noted earlier the TIMEVALUE function only works on text values that look like standard Excel formats. Paste CTRL v the format code into your TEXT function.