Stuck combining 3 numbers - excel

I need a formula in Excel, not VBA please, forbidden to have such functions on my work machine. My situation is I need a number from cell A, which is a result from Today(), combined with a number from cell B, which is a result from Now(), combined with a number from cell C which is a text number, to output as a single number.
Example:
Cell A1 Cell A2 Cell A3
Formula: TODAY() NOW() 17709
Displays: 1011 1423 17709
Needed: 1011142317709
What I'm trying is this, which is a fail: =TEXT(O21,yy-mm)&""&TEXT(P21,hh,mm)&"""&VALUE(Q21)

=TEXT(O21,"yymm")&""&TEXT(P21,"hhmm")&""&VALUE(Q21)
Placed in quotes the number format and removed extra quote though not sure why you are adding null to the string.
To match the sample output OP provided the formula would be:
=TEXT(A1,"mmdd")&""&TEXT(B1,"hhmm")&VALUE(C1)

If you do not need leading zeroes to fill 5 digit placeholders for the value in Q21,
=TEXT(NOW(),"yymmhhmm")&TEXT(Q21, "0")
'possibly,
=TEXT(NOW(),"mmddhhmm")&TEXT(Q21, "0")
If you do need leading zeroes to fill 5 digit placeholders for the value in Q21,
=TEXT(NOW(),"yymmhhmm")&TEXT(Q21, "00000")
'possibly,
=TEXT(NOW(),"mmddhhmm")&TEXT(Q21, "00000")

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Lets say we have two cells A1 and A2:
A1: A, B, 13
A2: C,B,14
Which are Strings. I want to add the values at the end of each cell-string.
Hence what I do to extract a value of a specific cell:
=VALUE(RIGHT(A1, SEARCH(",",A1))))
Returns 13 as a VALUE (or int).
Now, is there a way to add A1 and A2 in a SUM function? I could not find a way to loop through each A cell in a SUM range and work the VALUE magic on it.
A very bothersome solution would be to add all the values together like so:
=SUM(VALUE(RIGHT(A1, SEARCH(",",A1))),VALUE(RIGHT(A2, SEARCH(",",A2))))
But that does not seem optimal. I tried around with IF but it seems that what I am missing is simply the While/For loop to iterate through a range.
With data in A1 through A10, pick a cell and enter:
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The formula isolates the string after the second comma; converts it into an integer; and then sums the integers.
(just be sure that your SUMPRODUCT() covers only cells with data and not any blank cells)
EDIT#1:
a somewhat shorter formula is:
=SUMPRODUCT(--TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,",",REPT(" ",LEN(A1:A10))),LEN(A1:A10))))
EDIT#2:
The "shorter" formula works by replacing all commas with a great number of spaces, so many spaces in fact, that when we look at the RIGHT() part of the expanded string, all we see are spaces followed by some numbers. TRIM() removes these spaces, leaving us the numbers.

How to string two numbers together with extra zeros

How can I make a cell A1 "1234" with cell A2 "27" to make 12340027 as a number not text. In short, numbers in A2 are 1, 2 or 3 digits in length but they must be formatted to 4 digits e.g. 27= 0027, 4=0004. Using TEXT is resulting in lookup functions not working
How about:
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#keatz also elegant answer
If I got you correctly,
you can achieve it by this formula:
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Or multiply the text by one (or add zero):
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How to combine specific letters and numbers from different cells in Excel?

I have 3 names that I want to combine to create something unique - I've used "CONCATENATE", but to no avail.
Example:
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=LEFT(A1,2) & B1 & LEFT(C1,2)
See http://fiveminutelessons.com/learn-microsoft-excel/extract-text-cell-excel for info on how to extract text from cells. (Examples: LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID(),FIND().
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You could do this using the TEXT() function on the fly:
=LEFT(A1,2) & TEXT(B1,"000000") & LEFT(C1,2)
The six 0's tell Excel to create a number 6 digits long and replace any 0 with a non-zero number from your cell. So if B1 is 1, TEXT(B1,"000000") will convert it to 000001. If B11 is 11, TEXT(B11,"000000") will convert it to 000011.
If you instead want to ensure that the same number of 0's remain in front of your non-zero numbers, you could use the CONCATENATE() function:
=LEFT(A1,2) & CONCATENATE(B1,"00000") & LEFT(C1,2)
This would always insert five 0's in front of whatever number is listed in B1.
With values in A1, B1, and C1, in another cell enter:
=LEFT(A1,2)&TEXT(B1,"00000")&LEFT(C1,2)
This is needed to preserve the leading zeros if those leading zeros are the result of formatting cell B1
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=LEFT(A2,2) & B2 & LEFT(C2,2)

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I have a little problem concerning comparing different cells together, that's I need to compare each cell in column A, versus the whole column B and get the specified found cell in the adjacent column c cell.
I used this equation:
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and this is the result:
18 001220 No Match
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The problem is that this formula skips some data and doesn't collect them from column b except when being changed from text to general or number, which will damage my worksheet, as many cells start with zeros.
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Excel 2007 can drastically shorten that formula with IFERROR by removing the redundancy.
For your sample formula that would make,
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Following is the which I am trying :
Let this number 6,123,456.33 in Cell A1,
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Then in Cell C1 use this formula = SUBSTITUTE(B1,",",".") ,will give you 6.123.456.33
Then in Cell D1 use this formula =","&RIGHT(H12,2), will give you ,33.
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This tip will ends up in 6.123.456,33
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