I have looked the entire forum for the solution without luck, so I believe its a fair question to ask and hope someone can help.
Very simply I have the following formula:
=2018 & "-" & A1
This returns text the following way eg:
2018-2
2018-1
2018-5
2018-10
2018-8
I am trying to sort these entries chronologically without success. I have tried the following: TEXT(B1,”YYYY-MM), DATEVALUE and custom formatting in cell options. All of them do not work.
Any ideas? Many thanks.
Try ="2018-" & TEXT(A1,"00")
This will format the number in cell A1 as a 2-digit number, with leading zeros:
| 1 → "01"|
| 2 → "02"|
| 10 → "10"|
| 34 → "34"|
|123 → "123"|
So, you get ="2018-" & "01", which is ="2018-01"
Alternatively, you could use =DATE(2018, A1, 1) to set it as a Date (1st of the month), and set the NumberFormat of your cell as yyyy-mm
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