introduction excel training - Date Sorting

Hi,

Is is possible to have a date column just reading the month, and sorting as the month, rather than in alphabetical.

I understand that you can have date in a number of standard options (eg 01/01/07 , 01 January 07 etc) but is there a way where you simply just view the month in text (eg January , March), but it recognises it as a date rather than text.

Many thanks,
Norah.