title: Concatenating date with a string in Excel
body: <p>I have two cells in Excel. one has a string and the other one has a date. in the third cell I want to put the date and the string together.  For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>A1 = "This "
  A2 = "03/03/1982"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want A3 to be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This 03/03/1982
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when I try to put this in the A3 formula: <code>= A1 &amp; A2</code> it returns some funny numerical value for the date and does not give me the literal date. </p>