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Default Extract Month From A Text String

=MID(A1,FIND(",",A1)+2,FIND(" ",A1,FIND(",",A1)+2)-FIND(",",A1)-2)
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"George" wrote in message
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Good Day,

I have a date that I'm pulling from a report that is in a text string
format. What i need to be able to do is extract the month from the string
so
that I can run a script against the month name. The format of the string
is
as follows.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Thanks in advance for your help.
Sam