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Hello. In a mail merge with Date of Birth (Col A) in Excel as its data source, the switch \@ "MMMM d, yyyy" doesn't work because the Date of Birth column contains data that have month and year or year only. What I did was to add a helper column (B) with the following formula:
=TEXT(A2,"MMMM d, yyyy")
Column B was formatted to text. I couldn't simply use =A2 because the text format returns the serial number of the dates. I would like a formula in B2 that when copied down, the incomplete dates in column A are returned as they are but if the date is complete with month day and year, return the date in text format. Column B will be the data source of the mail merge. Thank you.
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