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="Today's date is " & TEXT(TODAY() "yyyy-mm-dd") The following alternative formula uses the TEXT function and gives the output that was probably intended, with a properly formatted date: It is likely that this is not what the creator of the formula had in mind! To demonstrate the utility of the TEXT function, consider the following formula that was intended to show today's date:Īssuming that today is, then this formula will display the string "Today's date is 44430", where 44430 is the date-time serial number for.

If the Format string is not valid, TEXT reports an invalid argument error (Err:502).

For more information about this argument, see the #Additional details: section below. The supplied value may be in any numeric format that is valid for your locale, for example, a number in decimal notation, a number in scientific notation, a number in fraction notation, a percentage, a currency, a date, a time, or a Boolean.įormat is a text string (in quotation marks), or a reference to a cell containing a text string, that specifies the format for the output text string. Value is the value to be processed, or a reference to a cell containing that value.

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Returns a text string, which is the converted value in the required format.

The TEXT function is particularly useful when you want to embed a formatted number inside a text string. Converts a number into text, in a specified format.