Date to text

natexcel

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I have a date in cell C4 that i want to use to open a file from my floppy A drive. The date is in the format March 10, 2002. The filename is in the format __020310.asc. How can I use cell C4 to open this file?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 

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Hi NatExcel

Try

Dim strName As String
strName = Format(Sheet1.Range("C4"), "yymmdd")
MsgBox strName & ".file ext"
 
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