Freshman

That's because the data in the cell is not text but a number (1 is Jan 1st
1900) masked by a format.

You can use

=MONTH(A2)=1

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"Freshman" wrote in message
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Dear experts,

I've a column in date format "dd/mmm/yy", such as:

08-Jan-07
12-Feb-07
21-Jan-07
18-Mar-07

When I want to apply conditional formatting to that column so that the
records in Jan can change to green colour by using the formula
=MID(A2,4,3)="Jan". However, it doesn't work! Please kindly advise what's
wrong with the formula and how to solve my problem.

Thanks in advance