Assuming A1 contains the date. If you want the month number...

=MONTH(A1)

If you want the abbreviated month name...

=TEXT(A1,"mmm")

If you want the full month name...

=TEXT(A1,"mmmm")

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Andrew" wrote in message
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Hello,
Given a column of dates in the mm/dd/yyyy format, how would I write a
function which would return only the month for each cell. I need the
month to be written out as numbers 1 through 12, or as Jan, Feb, etc.
Using the J, F, M, A, M month notation won't work because there are
too many duplicates.

Example: column 1 has dates, column 2 has daily temperatures, column 3
will contain all the temperatures for the month of January, column 4
for Feb, etc. So column three should have some function as follows:

=IF(column1 month = January, column2, "")

If someone knows how to do this, I'd appreciate it.

thanks