Skip to main content

Kutools for Office — One Suite. Five Tools. Get More Done.

How to concatenate year, month and day to date in Excel?

Author Siluvia Last modified

For example, cell A2, B2 and C2 separately contain month, day and year, and now you want to concatenate these three cells to a date in a single cell as below screenshot shown.

A screenshot showing a date concatenation example in Excel

This article will introduce two methods to concatenate year, month and day to date in details.

Concatenate year, month and day to date with formula
Concatenate year, month and day to date with an amazing tool

Concatenate year, month and day to date with formula

With the below formula, you can concatenate year, month and day to date in Excel.

1. Select a blank cell to place the concatenated date, and enter formula =A2&"/"&B2&"/"&C2 into the formula bar, then press the Enter key.

A screenshot showing the formula to concatenate year, month, and day in Excel

2. Drag the populated cell’s Fill Handle down to the cells for concatenating corresponding cells to date.

Note: In above formula, / is the separator between the month, day and year, you can change it to any other delimiters you need.

A screenshot showing the result of concatenating year, month, and day into a date

Now the month, day and year are combined to date.

Concatenate year, month and day to date with an amazing tool

The Combine utility of Kutools for Excel can help you concatenate values from multiple cells to one without using formula. Please do as follows.

Kutools for Excel offers over 300 advanced features to streamline complex tasks, boosting creativity and efficiency. Itegarate with AI capabilities, Kutools automates tasks with precision, making data management effortless. Detailed information of Kutools for Excel...         Free trial...

1. Supposing the month, day and year are located in different columns of the same row, please select them and then click Kutools > Merge & Split > Combine Rows, Columns or Cells without Losing Data.

A screenshot of Kutools for Excel's 'Combine Rows, Columns, or Cells without Losing Data' tool

2. In the popping up Combine Columns or Rows dialog box, you need to:

2.1) Select Combine columns option if the month, day and year you need to concatenate locating in different columns.
2.2) Select the Other separator option, enter the / mark.
2.3) Select a position for locating the combined date in the Place the results to drop-down list.
2.4) In the Option section, if you don’t want to keep the original texts, please select the Delete contents of combined cells option. Otherwise, select the other options.
2.5) Click the OK button. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing the Combine Columns or Rows dialog box

Now the cells are combined successfully.

Kutools for Excel - Supercharge Excel with over 300 essential tools. Enjoy permanently free AI features! Get It Now

Related articles:

Best Office Productivity Tools

🤖 Kutools AI Aide: Revolutionize data analysis based on: Intelligent Execution   |  Generate Code  |  Create Custom Formulas  |  Analyze Data and Generate Charts  |  Invoke Kutools Functions…
Popular Features: Find, Highlight or Identify Duplicates   |  Delete Blank Rows   |  Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data   |   Round without Formula ...
Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup  |   Multiple Value VLookup  |   VLookup Across Multiple Sheets   |   Fuzzy Lookup ....
Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List   |  Dependent Drop Down List   |  Multi-select Drop Down List ....
Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns  |  Move Columns  |  Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns  |  Compare Ranges & Columns ...
Featured Features: Grid Focus   |  Design View   |   Big Formula Bar   |  Workbook & Sheet Manager   |  Resource Library (Auto Text)   |  Date Picker   |  Combine Worksheets   |  Encrypt/Decrypt Cells   |  Send Emails by List   |  Super Filter   |   Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
Top 15 Toolsets:  12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...)   |   50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...)   |   40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...)   |   19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...)   |   12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...)   |   7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...)   |   ... and more
Use Kutools in your preferred language – supports English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, and 40+ others!

Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time.  Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

  • Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
  • Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
  • Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!

All Kutools add-ins. One installer

Kutools for Office suite bundles add-ins for Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint plus Office Tab Pro, which is ideal for teams working across Office apps.

Excel Word Outlook Tabs PowerPoint
  • All-in-one suite — Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint add-ins + Office Tab Pro
  • One installer, one license — set up in minutes (MSI-ready)
  • Works better together — streamlined productivity across Office apps
  • 30-day full-featured trial — no registration, no credit card
  • Best value — save vs buying individual add-in