Merge text formatted columns to single date column

Hi folks,
Not the most experienced of spreadsheet users, so hoping this is a quick fix:
I need to combine text data from columns A (Year), B (Month) & C (Date) into a new column as a date. I've tried a few combinations of =DATE(C2,B2,A2), but can't pinpoint the proper merge term.
I'd also like to know how to repeat the function down through several thousand rows without having to repeat the exercise for each row...
Many thanks,
Matt

Do you know that Apple designed two well done resources PDFs which every user may download from the Help Menu ?
There are :
Numbers User Guide
iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide.
In the second one we may see:
Your problem is that you used the reverse parameters ordering.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 14 avril 2010 18:32:27

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