Excel 连接不同类型单元格的单元格值

Question

I have an Excel spreadsheet where I'm unable to concatenate a line to group the cells together. In my spreadsheet I input dates and times to auto-add hours (a schedule with daily start/stop times). I'm trying to find a way to string these together to insert the lines into a Word doc.

Excel: (* indicates formula/calculation)

| DATE | START | STOP | Total*| Day* | ddd* |

| 2/27/23 | 8:00 AM | 7:00 PM | 11 | Mon | 2/27 |

I've tried using =text() and =value() but nothing seems to get me the information I need in a string. I do not want to do a copy/paste - the idea is to input the data once, and have another sheet read that in to a chart that can be inserted in to Word. What am I missing..?

=CONCATENATE(Rates!I9," ",Rates!H9," from ",Rates!C9," to ",Rates!D9) 

I was expecting: Mon 2/27 from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM

I'm getting: Mon 44984 from 0.333333333333333 to 0.895833333333333

Answer 1

This is one way to do it. Let's generate in A2 a timestamp via NOW() function, and in B2 two hours after NOW() + 2/24 . Then in C2 you can build the following output as follow:

=CONCAT(TEXT(A2, "ddd mm/dd"), " from ", 
 TEXT(A2-TRUNC(A2), "hh:mm AM/PM"), " to ",  
 TEXT(B2-TRUNC(B2), "hh:mm AM/PM"))

Note : Dates in excel are represented as a Whole number and the time is the decimal part of that number. The first hour is represented as 1/24 .

Or you can create a user LAMBDA function to get the decimal part ( GETDEC ) to simplify it:

=LET(GETDEC, LAMBDA(x, x-TRUNC(x)), CONCAT(TEXT(A2, "ddd mm/dd"), " from ",
 TEXT(GETDEC(A2), "hh:mm AM/PM"), " to ",  TEXT(GETDEC(B2), "hh:mm AM/PM")))

Here is the output:

or just putting it all together in a user LAMBDA function ( GET_TIME_INFO ) that can be used inside a LET function:

=LET(GET_TIME_INFO, LAMBDA(a,b, LET(GETDEC, LAMBDA(x, x-TRUNC(x)),
 CONCAT(TEXT(a, "ddd mm/dd"), " from ",
  TEXT(GETDEC(a), "hh:mm AM/PM"), " to ",  TEXT(GETDEC(b), "hh:mm AM/PM"))
 )), GET_TIME_INFO(A2,B2)
)

or you can define it in Name Manager and just use it, like any other regular Excel function: GET_TIME_INFO(A2,B2) .