To get the month #, i.e., 1 for Jan, 6 for Jun, use

=MONTH(cell with date)

If you want a text representation, i.e,. Jan or January for the 1st month, use

=TEXT(cell with date,"mmm")
or
=TEXT(cell with date,"mmmm")


"KC" wrote:

I'm looking for an excel formula that looks at a cell containing a date and
returns just the month of the date.