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

This issue is still there on Excel 2016 (or Office 365, if you may). It is caused by different language settings in Windows. This happens for languages that have different year symbols (dutch is 'jjjj', portuguese is 'aaaa'). If you're experiencing this problem, try using your local Windows language's year format.