Text Formula If you wish to get the Month in a new cell Use the Text function Formula = TEXT (A1,"mmmm") Or = TEXT (A1,"mmm") "mmmm" will result in display full name of the month "mmm" will result in Short Month in Short form eg januray as Jan OR As you can see we got the name of the month in the new cellWell Excel can convert text months into their respective numbers If you enter 1Sep in a cell Excel will convert that into the date 1/9/13 (Excel uses the current year) You can use that functionality to convert the text of a month into the month number Assume A1 contains the word September The following formula will convert that into theReturn previous month based on a date EXCEL = TEXT (B5 DAY (B5),"mmmm") This formula uses a combination of Excel TEXT and DAY functions to calculate the previous month based on a specific date The formula uses the DAY function to return the number of days that have elapsed during the specific month and then removes it from the specific date
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