Date Formats - Month Name/Text from Date

Hi, Does anyone know of a function that I can use to format a date in a specific manner. Bringing in month names instead of numbers. e.g. From 1/1/2014 I want 'Jan 14' as text In excel I would the text function - TEXT(*date*,"MMM YY") Thanks, Simon

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Hi Simon,

You can convert a date to the format you described by adding a list with Jan, Feb, etc. and assigning codes 1-12. Then, you can add the line items and formulas shown below to get the month names followed by the year. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks,

John

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simon_ritchie

Hi John,

Thanks for the suggestion. Screenshots are great.
It's a tidy little solution that will suit my purposes very nicely.

Thanks,
Simon

Andrew_Paston

Hi John

I know this is very old post but i was interested in this solution and cant find the formulas you mentioned below? Have they dissapeared?

Cheers

Andrew

MNHHS

John

I can't see any formulas

Chris

pooja.joshi7

Hi John,

Greetings for the day!!

I can't see formulas and screenshots posted by you.

Can you please check once.

Thanks

Pooja

ddevine

This is my solution to output "Feb 21" for example:

Date format: First Date of Period = START()

Output for February is 1/2/2021

Time format (month): Month Period = PERIOD(First Date of Period)

Output is "Feb 21".

Regards,

Declan

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