=TEXT(A9,"mmm-yy")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Rao Ratan Singh" wrote in message
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I just want to locate mmm, yy from my Sales book Sheet range of date which
is
from 4/01/05 to 2/28/06 in other sheet which have 12 rows for month column
sequentially.

For Example -
b9 should be Apr-05
b10 should be may- 06

it should be in date format not in text

Thanks and regards