custom formating a cell

Hello, I have a problem in creating a custom format and I'm running out of
time, could you please help me.
I have a cell containing a series of concatenated formulas and text
sections.
The formula is something like this

Day(A2) &" "& Month(A2)&" - "&Day(A3)&" "&month(A3).

this displays correct in numbers unfortunately, I need to display the month
in mmm format. so that it looks like
1 Jan - 2 Jan instead of 1 1 - 2 1
Should I use a custom number format (if so then how does it looks like) or
is there a function in which I could set the format I want a section to be
displayed in (something like format(month(A3, mmm) which IMO would be usefull
if it isn't in excel yet)

Thank you.

Try this:

=TEXT(A2,"d mmm")&" - "&TEXT(A3,"d mmm")


"VDU" wrote:

Hello, I have a problem in creating a custom format and I'm running out of
time, could you please help me.
I have a cell containing a series of concatenated formulas and text
sections.
The formula is something like this

Day(A2) &" "& Month(A2)&" - "&Day(A3)&" "&month(A3).

this displays correct in numbers unfortunately, I need to display the month
in mmm format. so that it looks like
1 Jan - 2 Jan instead of 1 1 - 2 1
Should I use a custom number format (if so then how does it looks like) or
is there a function in which I could set the format I want a section to be
displayed in (something like format(month(A3, mmm) which IMO would be usefull
if it isn't in excel yet)

Thank you.

Worked perfectlly, thank you. Looks like the day and month functions are
not the best options in this case.

"Teethless mama" wrote:

Try this:

=TEXT(A2,"d mmm")&" - "&TEXT(A3,"d mmm")


"VDU" wrote:

Hello, I have a problem in creating a custom format and I'm running out of
time, could you please help me.
I have a cell containing a series of concatenated formulas and text
sections.
The formula is something like this

Day(A2) &" "& Month(A2)&" - "&Day(A3)&" "&month(A3).

this displays correct in numbers unfortunately, I need to display the month
in mmm format. so that it looks like
1 Jan - 2 Jan instead of 1 1 - 2 1
Should I use a custom number format (if so then how does it looks like) or
is there a function in which I could set the format I want a section to be
displayed in (something like format(month(A3, mmm) which IMO would be usefull
if it isn't in excel yet)

Thank you.