where B4 contains the dateJanuary 5, 2016. The MONTH function returns the number 1 representing the month( January) of the date. Note that you can use MONTH to extract the month from a day entered as text: However, using text for dates can produce unpredictable results on computers using different regional date settings. It’s better (and more flexible) to supply an address to a cell that already contains a valid date.
Get month name
To extract the month name from a date, you can use the TEXT function, as described in this example.
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