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Excel text function date format not working. These date formats only work if the end users PC is set to the language the document was created in which can lead to problems in certain situations. Here are the fixes that you need to perform. Function textcellddd fails to convert a date to a day The problem is probably a conflict between the general system date settings and the excel date settings.

Date serial numbers by Excel but rather as text. In the following example youll see what happens if you try to join text and a number without using the TEXT function. TEXTTODAY dd-mmm-yyyy The result of this formula would show up as 08-Mar-2015.

You can use the TEXT function to convert dates or any numeric value to a fixed text format. Actually I have seen this formula working fine in the past. Excel custom number formats.

The formula I tried. It is showing all values as Jan. So the first thing you will need to check when you encounter the VALUE.

Firstly you need to highlight the cells having the. Your dates are stored as text. For this we need to supply the text date into the syntax of the DateValue function in double inverted commas.

There are a couple of ways you can approach this problem. Where -0809 is the language ID for English and dddd tells Excel to covert the date to the full name of the day. We need to add an additional step for this solution.