Reference date, keep format

harringg

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I have a CSV file with a date field. I've opened it in Excel 2011 for Macintosh.

I have
A1:Name B1: Amount C1: Date (formatted to look like 5/19/2011)

I want to refer those cells with some concatenation.

G1: ="DATE"&C1 results in:

DATE40682 (the date's serial number)

Is there a way to format it so that it looks like this:
DATE5/19/2011

So if C2 is 4/1/2011, field G2 would be DATE4/1/2011, etc...
 

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