Excel date format function?

[PeteG]

Hi,
Is there a simple way of formatting a date in Excel that appears within a function? For example, if I want this to appear in a cell "Date:01-Oct-2005", I'd like to be able to write a function like this ="Date:"&format(now(),'dd-mmm-yyyy'). I could do that in VBA (I think, it's been a while...) but can I do that with an existing Excel function or worksheet functionality? Cheers

 

[xlbo]

rather than FORMAT, use the TEXT function

="Date: " & TEXT(Today(),"dd-mmm-yyyy")

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[PeteG]

Excellent, thanks for the quick reply