Arvi,

Thanks, this worked very well. Can make use of your knowledge one more
time?
What happens if August, Setember,October, November,and December are
2004 and january, February are 2005. How should this formula be
adjusted?

Thanks again.

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:45:10 +0200, "Arvi Laanemets"
wrote:

Hi

For row 2
=DATE(2004,MATCH(A2,{"January","February","March" ,"April","May","June","July
","August","September","October","November","Dece mber"},0),SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTI
TUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(B2,"st",""),"nd","")," rd",""),"th",""))


Arvi Laanemets


"Ket" wrote in message
.. .
Hello,

I am using Windows XP with Office XP. I have two columns. Column A
contains months of the year in the format January, March December etc.
Column B contains dates in the format 11th, 16th, 20th etc.
Is it possible to combine these two cells to produce a date? Can a
sort then be undertaken on this new date column so that all
information is sorted chronologically?
I tried using concatenate to combine the cells but couldn't get them
to be recognised as dates.
Thanks in advance for all your assistance.

Ket
London