Excel TEXT formula doesn't convert 'yyyy' to a year

Question

I want to combine some text with a date in Excel 2013.

Let\'s say I have a cell A2 with a date like 30-10-2014. I tried to append the date after the text with t

Answer 1

we have the same issue at our work and I found that if I cannot influence the localization of the windows then I use a formula which in your case looks like:

="Some text and a date: "&TEXT(A2;"dd-mm-")&YEAR(A2)

It is funny that "dd" and "mm" is the same.