Get Month By Changing Formatting By changing a date's Date Format to "MMMM" you can see the month name or "MMM" to see the month abbreviation Note This will display the month name, but the value stored in the cell will still be the month number Hi All, I wanted to get the Hungarian name of months in VBA in my Hungarian version with the following statement monthname = WorksheetFunctionText(DateSerial(1900, monthnum, 1), "mmmm") It returned the English month names MyFormula to convert month name to number = MONTH (DATEVALUE (&1)) The MONTH function returns the month of any date in its argument The argument is the date returned by the DATEVALUE function In Excel, month name s alone cannot be used in formulas In this case, DATEVALUE is able to interpret the month name linked to the number 1 as a date
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