This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a date range from two dates.

Date as Text

The first step to creating a date range from two dates is to convert a date to text using the TEXT Function.  The TEXT Function can convert dates into many different formats, but we’ll focus on two.

M/D/YYYY Format

MMMM D, YYYY Format

Create Date Range

We can concatenate (join) two dates stored as text like this:

This is useful for an event start and end date, but what if the second date is missing (ex. the event is only one day):

To avoid the erroneous ” to ” if the second date is missing, we can use an If Statement to test if the second date exists before adding it to the string:

You can also handle if the first date is missing:

Create Date Range from Two Dates in Google Sheets

All of the above examples work exactly the same in Google Sheets as in Excel.