For example The TEXT function can use the following patterns like as.

Using text function in excel to convert date to text. Hello FriendsIn this video you will learn how to a text to a date in excel. TEXT value format_text where value is the numeric value to be converted to text. Kutools for Excel includes more than 300 handy Excel tools.

To do this quickly select your first cell of data at the top of a column and then hit Ctrl Shift. The Sales for 10012015 to 10312015 is 2500079. Note the function has two arguments and both are required.

And Kutools for Excel will list all converting results in the opening Convert to Date dialog box as below screenshot shown. Excel DATEVALUE function - change text to date. Take the below data and join the two columns A2 B2 together.

The syntax of the function is. Please close this dialog box. The Excel Text Function converts a supplied numeric value including an Excel date or time to text using a user-specified format.

If you dont like use the above code you can apply Kutools for Excels Convert Text to Formula feature with its help you can also convert text strings to formulas at once. This is particularly useful for scenarios where you require displaying the numbers or dates with text strings. TEXT is available in all versions of Excel.

Then you will see all selected text formatting dates are converted to real dates at once. The value argument is the value that we want to convert or the cell reference that contains that value. Start by selecting all of the text that you want to convert to dates.