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Jane has attended:
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List management

I seem to remeber there was a way to do the following but I can't remember how....

I have a data list, one colum is a date (eg 03/10/2008). I woul like to add a new column that just gives the month (eg October).

The data list is over 1000 long and 10 columns.

I hope this is something Excel can do quickly rather than me doing it manually!

Thanks

RE: List management

Hi Jane

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

I think you should be able to do this using a combination of the MONTH function and VLOOKUP function.

I've attached an example. I created a formula in B1 that looks at the date (in A1) and figures out which month the date is in using the date function. This returns the number of the month (i.e. January = 1, February = 2 etc) so then the VLOOKUP function looks up the month that corresponds to the number in the table to the right. You could set up the table for the VLOOKUP on a different sheet if you like, and it would still work.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

Attached files...

display month test.xls


 

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