Cell to Text

UpTheArgyle

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Hi

Is it possible to have one cell copy the text of another?

I have a date in one cell formatted as "DDD" so the result is "Mon" or "Tue" etc

What i want to do is have another cell just look at the text e.g "Mon" and display it in the cell as text and not a numbered date format.

Possible?
 

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