Display both Date and Text in a single SharePoint column?

[VeeExcelLearn]

Is there a way to display date and text in a single column? So that it is a date picker but also the option to type in text or does this mess things up?

[#2]

@VeeExcelLearn a column can only have 1 data type so this isn't possible.

Rob
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Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@VeeExcelLearn Rob is correct, you can't have a single column that does has text and a date.  However, a text and date field can be displayed together using a calculated column.    

Here is what I used to format the calculated column.

=Text&" - "&TEXT(Date,"dd mmm yy")

Depending on the requirements, you might want to put that in an IF statement to adjust the formatting if there is missing information.

=Text&IF(Date>0," - "&TEXT(Date,"dd mmm yy"),"")