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How to display January (month name) if cell starts with 1 (numbers) in Excel?

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Maybe in some special cases, you may want to display the cell as January if it starts with 1. For instance, there is a list of dates shown as mm/dd/yy, and you want to convert all dates into month names as below screenshot shown.

A screenshot showing list of dates to convert to month names in Excel

Display month name by formulas

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Display month name by formulas

Here are some formulas that can change the date to month name in Excel.

Select a blank cell, type one of below formulas to it, and press Enter key to get the month name. If you need, drag the Auto fill handle to over cells which need to apply this formula.

=IF(MONTH(A1)=1,"January",IF(MONTH(A1)=2,"February",IF(MONTH(A1)=3,"March",IF(MONTH(A1)=4,"April",IF(MONTH(A1)=5,"May",IF(MONTH(A1)=6,"June",
IF(MONTH(A1)=1,"July",IF(MONTH(A1)=8,"August",IF(MONTH(A1)=9,"September",IF(MONTH(A1)=10,"October",IF(MONTH(A1)=11,"November","December")))))))))))

=TEXT(A2,"mmmm")

=CHOOSE(MONTH(A1),"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")

A screenshot showing formulas for displaying month names from dates in Excel

Display month name with Kutools for Excel

In Kutools for Excel’s hundreds of utilities, there is a handy feature – Apply Date Formatting that can quickly convert dates formatting.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

1. Select the date cells, and click Kutools > Format > Apply Date Formatting. See screenshot:
A screenshot of Kutools Apply Date Formatting option in Excel menu

2. In the Apply Date Formatting dialog, select the month format form left Date formatting list, click Ok or Apply. Then the dates have been converted. See screenshot:
A screenshot of Apply Date Formatting dialog   A screenshot showing dates converted to month names

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