Excel 2007: How to Convert "5/2/2013" to "May" then subtract a Month so it's "Apr"

[Golom]

I'm trying to automate some reporting and our company has been doing this manually. I can't seem to find a automated way to convert a numerical date ("5/2/2013") to just the month "May", then subtract a month "Apr", so I can put it in for reporting for the previous month's data.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!

[Pete_UK]

Assuming that date is in cell D2, then you could use this:

=DATE(YEAR(D2),MONTH(D2)-1,DAY(D2))

then apply a custom format to this cell of "mmm".

Hope this helps.

Pete

[ConneXionLost]

Format both cells as, Custom "mmm" and use:

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[Norie]

To get the month name from a date you can use the worksheet function TEXT.

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In VBA you can use Format or MonthName with Month.

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To get the previous month you can use EOMONTH worksheet function

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In code you can use DateAdd.

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[Pete_UK]

Another way (so you don't have to bother with formatting):

=TEXT(DATE(YEAR(D2),MONTH(D2)-1,DAY(D2)),"mmm")

Hope this helps.

Pete

[Golom]

Perfect, thanks!!!

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