Convert a date to month as text | Microsoft Excel | Xyclos
We are going to learn how to display and how to extract the month from a date, along with other examples that include the day and year.
Excel: how to display a Date as a Month
Let's learn how to display a date as month text using the Text function:
In cell A1 enter a date: 12/6/2022 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Make sure the date aligns right in the cell.
That means that Excel recognizes it as a date or value.
If it is aligned to the left, it is recognized as text and cannot be used to make the conversion.
In cell B1 enter the function: =TEXT(A1,"mmm")
In cell B1 the result is displayed: Dec
Structure of the TEXT function
The Text function has two arguments.
TEXT (Cell that contains a date or value, Format between quotes that you want to apply)
Let's look at other cases.
Display the full name of the month
In cell A1 enter a date: 12/6/2022
In cell B1 enter the function: =TEXT(A1,"mmmm") In cell B1 the result is displayed: December With the 4 m's, the full name of the month is displayed
It also works to display only the day of a date
In cell A1 enter a date: 12/6/2022
In cell B1 enter the function: =TEXT(A1,"ddd") In cell B1 the result is displayed: Tue With the 3 d's, the summarized name or acronym of the day is displayed
Or also to display the full name of the day
In cell A1 enter a date: 12/6/2022
In cell B1 enter the function: =TEXT(A1,"dddd") In cell B1 the result is displayed: Tuesday With the 4d's, the full name of the day is displayed
Extract the year, month or day from a date
With the Text function, a date or a value is displayed with the format that we define, however in Excel we have functions to extract or remove something from a cell.
To extract specific text from a cell we can use the Extract function
But if we need to extract the components of a date which are: the year, the month and the day, we have the functions Year, Month and Day
Extract the month from a date
To extract the month from a date, use the =Month(Cell) function: In cell B1 enter =month(A1) and this is the result. 12 (numeric month)
Extract the day from a date
You can use the =day(A2) function to extract only the day: 6 (numerical day)
Extract the year from a date
Use the function =year(A3) to extract only the year: 2022
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