Working with Data columns in Excel is many a times a necessity. There are various data tables that contains one or more date columns. There can be a need to work with the date column to do various calculations. One need can be to find the month value from given date. Excel has Month function that helps in finding month value from a given date. This article explains How to use month function in Excel?
Emma has customer data for his company. She is looking forward to find month value for the given date of birth. In the column K, month of birth, Emma is looking to fill month value for each of the corresponding date of birth.
Excel formula for Month
- Step 1: To find the month value from a given date in Excel, MONTH function is helpful. The key input for month function is Date value. Here Date of Birth is present in column J, so the syntax is as below:
=MONTH(J5)
- Step 3: Copy the cell K5 and paste the formulas to rest of the cells in the column. This will generate updated Month of birth column for whole table.
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