Hi Dean,

Are you sure B34 is a date? Format it as General; it should read 39233. If it gives you some small number, that might be the
result of dividing 5 by 31 and then by 2007 and Excel's date system would indeed interpret that as January.
BTW, use "mmmm" (4 m's) as format code; no difference for May, but January would read Jan with 3 m's.

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Dean" wrote in message ...
| This is an easy one, though not for me apparently!
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| I have a variable cell, say cell B34, with 5/31/2007 currently in it,
| formatted as a date. In another cell, I want it to say "as of end of May",
| using the text function at the end to produce May. But I am having trouble
| with the formatting of that text part, e.g., text(B34,"mmm") or something
| like that, but that doesn't work - it gives me January. I tried the month
| function, and it does yield 5, but I can't figure out how to get it to
| produce May, the fifth month.
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| Kindly help.
|
| Thanks!
| Dean
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