Thank you Niek,

I did not realize it is that simple.

Rick

"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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Don't extract the month. Just use
=D1
and format Custom as "mmmm"
If you require it to be text, use
=TEXT(D1,"mmmm")

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"Ricky Gibson" wrote in message
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|I am using Excel 2002.
| I have in column D the birthdate of persons (e.g.: 23-02-1962)
| I extract in column E, with the MONTH-function, the month (2 in my
example)
| However I do not want the number 2, but the text februari.
| How can I do that?
|
| Thanks for any suggestions,
| Rick
|
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