Can Excel turn 4/15/2025 into just “April”? Yes—here’s how.
Ever needed to extract just the month name from a full date in Excel? Learn the exact Excel formula that makes it happen—no guesswork, no manual typing.
This Excel video teaches you how to figure out the name of a month from a given date. It explains that you can use a function called TEXT along with custom formats to do this.
The TEXT function can transform dates into month names like January, February, etc. For example, the formula =TEXT(B5,"mmmm") takes a date in cell B5 and converts it to "April".
If you only want to display the month name without changing the date value, you can use custom number formats directly on the cell.
You can also create your own month names using the CHOOSE and MONTH functions, which allows for more flexibility in generating various types of month names based on the date.
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