Change cell A1 in the formula and change the date format using the format cells method.

Text function in excel date format. Whereas the DATEVALUE function ignores the time section of the text string. Then you will see all dates are converted to text strings and displayed like normally dates in cells. The TEXT function helps you to keep any number format inside a string.

Just try to put 2018 in any cell and format the cell to short date and see that. TEXT112017 -0809 dddd Sunday. Convert date string to date time Exceljet.

The number or the date value. However there are other methods that are available. RIGHTA12 which is 25.

Using the Text Function most commonly used Using the Text to Column option. Lets take an example with the date. 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.

There are four simple ways to convert date to text in Excel. The TEXT function is generally required and used in following scenarios. TEXT function is a worksheet function that you can use in the worksheet while the Format function can only be used in VBA code.

Where -0809 is the language ID for English and dddd tells Excel to covert the date to the full name of the day. LEFTA14 which is 2015. Youve extracted the year 2018 from TODAY function and 2018 is the serial number that represents the date 7101905 Mdyyyy.