Concatenating date with a string in Excel

Question

I have two cells in Excel. one has a string and the other one has a date. in the third cell I want to put the date and the string together. For example:

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Answer 1

Don't know if it's the best way but I'd do this:

=A1 & TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy")

That should format your date into your desired string.

Edit: That funny number you saw is the number of days between December 31st 1899 and your date. That's how Excel stores dates.