How to Quickly convert date to words in Excel?

In general, we usually convert the date to other date formats or digits in Excel, but have you ever encountered a problem about converting the date to English words as below screenshot shown? Actually, there is no built-in function that can handle it but a VBA code.

Convert date to word with Defined Function

Convert date to word with Defined Function

Here is a macro code that can do you a favor on converting dates to words.

1. Enable the sheet you use and press Alt + F11 keys to open Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module and paste below code to the script.

VBA: Convert date to word

Function DateToWords(ByVal xRgVal As Date) As String
'UpdatebyExtendoffice20170926
    Dim xYear As String
    Dim Hundreds As String
    Dim Decades As String
    Dim xTensArr As Variant
    Dim xOrdArr As Variant
    Dim xCardArr As Variant
    xOrdArr = Array("First", "Second", "Third", _
                   "Fourth", "Fifth", "Sixth", _
                   "Seventh", "Eighth", "Nineth", _
                   "Tenth", "Eleventh", "Twelfth", _
                   "Thirteenth", "Fourteenth", _
                   "Fifteenth", "Sixteenth", _
                   "Seventeenth", "Eighteenth", _
                   "Nineteenth", "Twentieth", _
                   "Twenty-first", "Twenty-second", _
                   "Twenty-third", "Twenty-fourth", _
                   "Twenty-fifth", "Twenty-sixth", _
                   "Twenty-seventh", "Twenty-eighth", _
                   "Twenty-nineth", "Thirtieth", _
                   "Thirty-first")
    xCardArr = Array("", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", _
                   "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", _
                   "Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve", "Thirteen", _
                   "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", _
                   "Seventeen", "Eighteen", "Nineteen")
    xTensArr = Array("Twenty", "Thirty", "Forty", "Fifty", _
               "Sixty", "Seventy", "Eighty", "Ninety")
    xYear = CStr(Year(xRgVal))
    Decades = Mid$(xYear, 3)
    If CInt(Decades) < 20 Then
        Decades = xCardArr(CInt(Decades))
    Else
        Decades = xTensArr(CInt(Left$(Decades, 1)) - 2) & "-" & _
                xCardArr(CInt(Right$(Decades, 1)))
    End If
        Hundreds = Mid$(xYear, 2, 1)
    If CInt(Hundreds) Then
        Hundreds = xCardArr(CInt(Hundreds)) & " Hundred "
    Else
        Hundreds = ""
    End If
    DateToWords = xOrdArr(Day(xRgVal) - 1) & _
                  Format$(xRgVal, " mmmm ") & _
                  xCardArr(CInt(Left$(xYear, 1))) & _
                  " Thousand " & Hundreds & Decades
End Function

3. Save the code and go back to the sheet, select a cell which you will output the result in, type this formula =DateToWords(A1) (A1 is the date you use), press Enter key and drag auto fill handle to over the cells you need. See screenshot:

Numbers to Words

Go to Download Free Trial 30 daysPurhase PayPal / MyCommerce

Relative Articles:

• How To Quickly Convert Date Format Between European And US In Excel?
• How to convert dD.MM.YYYY to date format (mM/DD/YYYY) in Excel?
• How To Convert Between Date And Unix Timestamp In Excel?

---

The Best Office Productivity Tools

Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%

• Reuse: Quickly insert complex formulas, charts and anything that you have used before; Encrypt Cells with password; Create Mailing List and send emails...
• Super Formula Bar (easily edit multiple lines of text and formula); Reading Layout (easily read and edit large numbers of cells); Paste to Filtered Range...
• Merge Cells/Rows/Columns without losing Data; Split Cells Content; Combine Duplicate Rows/Columns... Prevent Duplicate Cells; Compare Ranges...
• Select Duplicate or Unique Rows; Select Blank Rows (all cells are empty); Super Find and Fuzzy Find in Many Workbooks; Random Select...
• Exact Copy Multiple Cells without changing formula reference; Auto Create References to Multiple Sheets; Insert Bullets, Check Boxes and more...
• Extract Text, Add Text, Remove by Position, Remove Space; Create and Print Paging Subtotals; Convert Between Cells Content and Comments...
• Super Filter (save and apply filter schemes to other sheets); Advanced Sort by month/week/day, frequency and more; Special Filter by bold, italic...
• Combine Workbooks and WorkSheets; Merge Tables based on key columns; Split Data into Multiple Sheets; Batch Convert xls, xlsx and PDF...
• More than 300 powerful features. Supports Office / Excel 2007-2021 and 365. Supports all languages. Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization. Full features 30-day free trial. 60-day money back guarantee.

Read More... Free Download... Purchase... 

---

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

• Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
• Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
• Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!

Read More... Free Download... Purchase...