With your date/time value in A2, use the following in an empty column & copy
down:
=TEXT(A2,"dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm")

If using VBA, you can use the Format function with pretty much the same
arguments. Both functions do essentially the same thing: convert a numerical
value into text with the specified formatting.

HTH,
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George Nicholson

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"joey" <joey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i have a long colum of custom formated dates i need to change them into
>text
> in order to prosses them -the custom format is dd/mm/yyyy h:mm the cell
> reads
> 01/09/2005 9:30 the number that shows up is 38596.39583 when i try to
> convert
> the format to standard text. is there a function that will do this for me?