How to change Serial Number to Text

I was trying to autopopulate a column. Basically, I had to autopopulate column B with the month based on the short date that was listed in column A.

So I tried a simple formula in column B: =MONTH(A8) and it pulls out the Month for the Short Date in the A column i.e. If A2 has 8/10/13 then B2 now has 8. How do I now change B2 and subsequent rows in B to text? So instead of listing 8, it would say instead AUG. I feel like I'm so close, please help!

Hope I'm clear.
RS

Use this formula instead:

=TEXT(A8,"mmm")

Hope this helps.

Pete

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