Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Inline Formatting

At 12:33 24/01/2014 -0800, Dave Liesse wrote:
> 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.

The TEXT() function is your friend.

> I build the cell formula as
> =CONCATENATE("my text",$r$2)
>
> ... what I really want is MM/DD/YYYY.
> Any ideas how to simplify this?

="my text "&TEXT(R2;"MM/DD/YYYY")

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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