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Concatenating dates in Google Sheets refers to the process of combining multiple date values into a single cell. This can be useful when organizing and analyzing data that includes both date and time information. To concatenate dates in Google Sheets, you can use the CONCATENATE function or the “&” symbol to join two or more cells containing date values. This allows for a more organized and visually appealing presentation of data in spreadsheets. By following a few simple steps, users can easily concatenate dates in Google Sheets and enhance their data analysis capabilities.
Concatenate Dates in Google Sheets
When using the CONCATENATE function, Google Sheets will automatically convert dates to numeric values.
However, you use the TEXT function to specify that the date should remain formatted as a date:
=CONCATENATE(A2,TEXT(B2,"M/DD/YYYY"))
This particular formula will concatenate the strings in cells A2 and B2 and keep the date in cell B2 formatted as a date with a M/DD/YYYY format.
The following example shows how to use this formula in practice.
Example: Concatenate Dates in Google Sheets
Suppose we have the following dataset in Google Sheets that contains information about the start date for various employees at some company:
If we use the following CONCATENATE function to create a string that describes when each employee started working, each of the dates in column B will be converted to numeric values by default:
=CONCATENATE(A2, " started working on ",B2)
Notice that each of the dates have been converted to numeric values by default.
To concatenate the cells and keep the dates in column B formatted as dates, we can instead use the following formula:
=CONCATENATE(A2, " started working on ", TEXT(B2, "M/DD/YYYY"))
By using the TEXT function within the CONCATENATE function, we are able to concatenate the employee names and the dates while keeping the dates in the correct format.
Also note that M/DD/YYYY is only one date format option we could have used.
=CONCATENATE(A2, " started working on ", TEXT(B2, "MMM YYYY"))
Refer to the for a complete list of available date formats you can use.
The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in Google Sheets:
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