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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Click the italics "fx" icon to the left of the formula bar to open the Functions Arguments dialog. Help is displayed for each argument.
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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