Convert Date to String

Sandy Radjenovic

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Via VBA, I am cutting and pasting a row from the current worksheet to a "done" worksheet which lists all jobs done. This "DONE" worksheet is eventually exported to a dbf.

I would like to update a cell in the "done" worksheet to be that of today's date to reflect date of transfer. Unfortunately, the column I have to work with is a formatted text column. Is there a way to convert a date (i.e. now() ) to a string?

Your help would be appreciated!
 

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See the FORMAT text function in VBA. It works very much like the TEXT Excel function.

i.e.
MYSTRING=FORMAT(NOW(),"yyyymmdd")
 
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