want to add text in cell that included today's date..

I want to this in a cell:

="Today is " & Today()


If I just put:

=TODAY()

in a cell, it shows the date. If I put text in front of it, it shows a long number...not a date.

What am I doing wrong?

I don't think you can have two different formats in the same cell. The numbers that you are seeing are, I think, Boolean Date...which is a text format The only thing that I can suggest is to have one column with "Today Is" and the next column with the date.

Good luck