=MONTH(DATEVALUE("01-"&A21))

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"runsrealfast" wrote in message
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I would like to convert a column that holds the name of a month
(January, February, etc) into a number (1, 2). Is there an easy way to
do this, you can't do enough if statemnts to do that. any suggestions?