

#LONG DATE FORMAT EXCEL 2011 FOR MAC MONTH/DATE/YEAR HOW TO#
How to get month number from date in Excel But look through the below examples and you will be amazed to know how many useful things it can actually do. =MONTH(TODAY()) - returns the number of the current month.Īt first sight, the Excel MONTH function may look plain.

=MONTH(A1) - returns the month of a date in cell A1. In practice, instead of specifying a date within the MONTH function, it's more convenient to refer to a cell with a date or supply a date returned by some other function. For example, the formula =MONTH(DATE(2015,3,1)) returns 3 since DATE represents the 1st day of March, 2015.įormulas like =MONTH("") also work fine, though problems may occur in more complex scenarios if dates are entered as text. Where serial_number is any valid date of the month you are trying to find.įor the correct work of Excel MONTH formulas, a date should be entered by using the DATE(year, month, day) function. The MONTH function can be used in all versions of Excel 2016 - 2000 and its syntax is as simple as it can possibly be: Microsoft Excel provides a special MONTH function to extract a month from date, which returns the month number ranging from 1 (January) to 12 (December).

On Google Drive do this:Ĭlick to open the file with Google spreadsheet How the column looked ("Long date" format on Excel)Īs can be seen, the cell contents doesn't change no matter what.Including deleting them manually and entering the figures in "DD-MM-YYYY" format, or copying and pasting format from the blue ones. The red circled cell contents (problematic ones) do not change at all regardless of what tricks you do. How the column looked ("Short Date" format on Excel).spent a whole day entering crazy formulas online to no success.
My Excel sheet had 102,300 rows and one column with date was messy. Change the cell number format if you wish to see the underlying times as well as the dates. Note that both date and time are preserved. Select all of the dates (just the dates, not the whole column) and tap Alt+ F8 to Run the macro. TextToColumns Destination:=.Cells(1, 1), DataType:=xlFixedWidth, FieldInfo:=Array(0, 1) Replace what:=Chr(160), replacement:=Chr(32), lookat:=xlPart Paste the following into the pane titles something like Book1 - Module1 (Code). Tap Alt+ F11 and when the VBE opens, immediately use the pull down menus to Insert ► Module ( Alt+ I, M). While you didn't tag VBA as a possible solution, you may be able to use what some feel is a VBA shortcoming to your advantage that being VBA heavily defaulted to North American regional settings unless explicitly told to use another.
