The result still looks the same.
Text function excel time format. However there are other methods that are available. If format is not supplied a string is returned. For this we just have to select the cell we want to convert and the format we want to convert.
The second argument format _ text is a special string that Excel recognizes and uses to display the converted text value in a format that you specify. 10015 to text you can use the TEXT function. MyStr FormatDate Long Date MyStr FormatMyTime hms Returns 17423.
If value is already text no formatting is applied. Select the cell which will place the text result type this formula TEXT A1hhmmss AMPM press Enter key. MyStr FormatTime Long Time Returns current system date in the system-defined long date format.
Text function is used to convert the value into text. The TIMEVALUE function in excel extracts the numerical value of time from this text value. Whereas the DATEVALUE function ignores the time section of the text string.
Next click in the Type box select the format code and press CTRL c to copy this code. You can use the TEXT function to embed formatted numbers inside text. Cell A2 shows time in PM so the decimal returned for 830 pm whereas in the next row the decimal returned is for 830 am for the time in AM.
TEXT function and Format function. The TEXT function takes two arguments value and format_text. The results we get in a spreadsheet are shown below.