Format Today() in a string

[YesConsulting]

To show todays date the formula =Today() in a cell returns just that... A formatted date : 1/13/19

I have a cell to show the week number and todays date

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="Week: " & ISOWEEKNUM(TODAY() + 1) & " " & TODAY()

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This returns :

Week: 3 43478
I expected it to return : Week 3 1/13/19 It would be even better to return : Week 3 Jan 13, 2019 but that may be too much?! Besides not making sense (to me) why the function does not function the same... I cant find any formatting function that works at the cell level. The Format() only works in VB. This seems like a dummy question, like it should be obvious.. But having spent quite a bit of time on it has me perplexed. I am prepared to be embarrassed.

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[Rick Rothstein]

You need to use the TEXT function in order to force Excel to display the date with the format

="Week: " & ISOWEEKNUM(TODAY() + 1) & " " & TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm d, yyyy")