Format Today() in a string

[YesConsulting]

To show todays date the formula =Today() in a cell returns just that... A formatted date : 1/13/19

I have a cell to show the week number and todays date

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<!--StartFragment--> [TD="width: 87"]="Week: " & ISOWEEKNUM(TODAY() + 1) & " " & TODAY()[/TD]
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This returns :
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[TD="colspan: 2"]Week: 3 43478[/TD]
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I expected it to return : Week 3 1/13/19
It would be even better to return : Week 3 Jan 13, 2019 but that may be too much?!

Besides not making sense (to me) why the function does not function the same...
I cant find any formatting function that works at the cell level.
The Format() only works in VB.

This seems like a dummy question, like it should be obvious..
But having spent quite a bit of time on it has me perplexed.
I am prepared to be embarrassed.

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[Rick Rothstein]

You need to use the TEXT function in order to force Excel to display the date with the format

="Week: " & ISOWEEKNUM(TODAY() + 1) & " " & TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm d, yyyy")