Thanks to all replies and particularly this one that worked like magic!
Mati

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Your starting problem may well be that your 26.01.2008 is being regarded as
text, rather than as a date. If formatting the cell doesn't change the
value, then it's likely to be text. If that is so, use Data/ Text to
Columns, and specify DMY as the date format at the final stage of the
wizard, and it should be changed to a real date. Thereafter you can use
Format Cells to change the display to whichever date format you want, or
=TEXT(A2,"mmmm,yyyy") if you actually want to convert the value to text of
the specified format.
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David Biddulph

"Mati" wrote in message
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Need help to convert format "26.01.2008" to "January,2008". I have tried
formatting under dates etc and unfortunately it does not work.
Thanks,
Mati