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converting month name to number
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? |
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Answer: converting month name to number
Converting Month Names to Numbers in Excel
To convert a column of month names into their corresponding numbers in Microsoft Excel, you can use the MONTH function. Here are the steps to follow:
That's it! You now have a column of month numbers that you can use for further analysis or calculations.
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=MONTH(DATEVALUE("01-"&A21)) -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct) "runsrealfast" wrote in message ups.com... 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? |
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On 13 Jun 2006 10:26:03 -0700, "runsrealfast" wrote:
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? Here's one way: =TEXT(DATEVALUE("1 " &A1&" 2000"),"m") --ron |
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