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    Unhappy I can't get the Month to extract from a date

    I have a date (formatted as dd-mmm-yy) in cell P1 - eg 31-Jul-19

    I want to get the end-of month from that cell BUT want only the month.

    My task is to lookup the end of a selected month from a table of values and return only the related value.

    The table is foreign exchange rate, with daily data entered. The table has a column that calculates the monthly average (one column as a running average and one column with only the actual average for that month)

    I have tried the =Month($p$1) where $p$1 is the current date [ =Now() ]. Does not want to know about the date! I enter, for example, 31/7/19 in cell P1 and this formula (after custom formatting mmmm) yields January!

    I have tried EOMONTH(Data($p$1) &"1") to see if I could get the end on month month for the date in $p$1 snd always get ERROR!

    What am I doing incorrectly and can anyone help with a solution that actually works?

    I have not attached the spreadsheet as it is over 17,000 lines long by 23 columns wide!

    Thanks in advance

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    Re: I can't get the Month to extract from a date

    Try this:

    =TEXT(EOMONTH($P$1,0),"mmmm")
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    Re: I can't get the Month to extract from a date

    Your problem is a combination of the MONTH function returning a number and the way Excel treats dates internally. Excel stores dates just as numbers, with '1' being 1st January 1900. For 31/7/19, MONTH returns the number '7'. Excel doesn't recognise this as a date, just as a number. So when you format it as a date ('mmmm' or similar), Excel thinks it's 7th January 1900 and gives you 'January'.

    The easiest way to extract a month for display is to use the TEXT function:
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    This converts the date to text, so you can't use it in any calculations, but will give you the display you want.

    Hope that helps.

    Edit: Ali beat me to it...
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    Re: I can't get the Month to extract from a date

    Thanks for the speedy response. I'll give it a go. I was thinking of this but thought it may have been an inefficient way of achieving my aim but, as others have indicated, this seems to be the only solution.

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