Hi!

You need to test cell A1 and make sure there is a date entered:

=IF(ISNUMBER(A1),MONTH(A1),"")

Or, maybe something like this:

=ISNUMBER(A1)*MONTH(A1)

Will return either 0 or the month number

Biff

"Barry" wrote in message
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using formula =month(a1) and in a1 is a date of 01 01 2006 and it returns
value of 1 which is correct, however if i delete the date in a1 it still
returns a value of 1. how can I resolve this?