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    Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    Hello friends, this should be an easy one for someone but I have been having an issue with it for a while. I have a column of "normalized" dates that are each month / 1 / year so each is date formatted and 1/1/2013, 2/1/2013 etc. I want to use a simple month formula for how I use the data in graphs so I'd like to use =MONTH(A2) to return Sep in the attached example but for some reason it keeps giving me Jan. It appears in col B that it is returning the correct # but in col C (pointed it at col B and col A) it is returning J and same in col D. The differences between each of these columns is how I tried to format them. Check the formatting on them and you'll see.

    Currently I'm using a lookup formula to a reference table as a workaround but it isn't what I'd like to do.
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    Re: Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    You don't need MONTH function, make C2

    =A2

    ...and the same in D2

    format as required

    [when you use MONTH(A2) the result is a number between 1 and 12 but these are interpreted as dates 1-Jan 1900 to 12th Jan 1900, all of which are in January hence "J" or "Jan"]
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    Re: Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    That on the surface seems to work but the problem is, I have a rolling 18 months of data that always has overlaps in the months - 2 Januarys or 2 Marchs etc and I produce several bar graphs that include 12 month graph showing the overlapping months side by side (ie. April 2012 beside April 2013). So I need it to actually be Apr but when I did that it was still being counted as either April 2012 and April 2013. The bar graph was no longer side by side, just an 18 month straight line.

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    Re: Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    Apparently this works and I can drop the hlookup I was using though it isn't very elegant, was hoping for something simplier.
    =IF(MONTH(A2)=1,"Jan",IF(MONTH(A2)=2,"Feb",IF(MONTH(A2)=3,"Mar",IF(MONTH(A2)=4,"Apr",IF(MONTH(A2)=5,"May",IF(MONTH(A2)=6,"Jun",IF(MONTH(A2)=7,"Jul",IF(MONTH(A2)=8,"Aug",IF(MONTH(A2)=9,"Sep",IF(MONTH(A2)=10,"Oct",IF(MONTH(A2)=11,"Nov","Dec")))))))))))
    Thanks daddylonglegs for trying.

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    Re: Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    Try TEXT function

    =TEXT(A2,"mmm")

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    Re: Month format issue - convert 9/1/2013 into Sep

    That worked too! And much simplier! Great, and thanks again!

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