Two simple questions which should be available through Help, but I
haven't been able to find anything.
1. Is there a way to format content within a formula? I need a cell
that concatenates a properly-formatted date to some text, but I can't
find any way to specify the date format.
2. In conjunction with #1, is there a function to return an entire date
in external format rather than having to get the month, day, and year
separately? All I've found is a way to convert a human date to an
internal date.
Here's the background of what I'm trying to do, in case it's not all
clear above. I'm using Calc to replicate a form produced by another
system; the other system only lets me go out a certain distance in the
future but my client wants it for a longer period. What I create won't
be a perfect match, but it'll be close enough. For this particular job,
mainly due to other formatting issues, Calc is a better choice than Writer.
The date appears several times on the form, so I naturally just want to
enter it once. In two cases it appears after standard text that is
centered in its cell. I build the cell formula as
=CONCATENATE("my text",$r$2)
where R2 is the cell in which I've entered the date. The formula as
written here returns the internal date, so I tried this one:
=CONCATENATE("my text",MONTH($r$2),"/",DAY($r$2),"/",YEAR($r$2))
Unfortunately, this one gives me a single digit for the month and the
day, and what I really want is MM/DD/YYYY. If I could just do this
inline it would be a lot easier than having to then figure out how Calc
will generate leading zeroes for me (which would also require inline
formatting or a lot more embedded functions).
Any ideas how to simplify this?
Dave
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