Comments on: Undocumented Excel: Convert Month Name To Number

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:34:27 +0000

OK, nevermind, seems to be a language thing… Thanks!

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:52:57 +0000

Strange; it only seems to work for me for the months April, August, September, November, December. For the other months Excel yells #VALUE! at me…. Any ideas…?

By: Sri

Sri — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:55:06 +0000

Awesome!!! Thanks

By: allan

allan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:46:27 +0000

thanks, just what I was looking for

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:57:57 +0000

Thanks dude, It’s Brilliant!

By: Chobkid

Chobkid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:45:00 +0000

Thanks for your share.
It’s great!

By: Steve Gore

Steve Gore — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:36:13 +0000

Brilliant, many thanks.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:21:23 +0000

This is an interesting approach, but wouldn’t quite work for me since I could not introduce a drop-down (the solution returns the index of the drop-down).

If drop-down is not an option, you can use the MATCH function.

For example, if B33 contains one of “JAN”, “FEB”, etc, the formula:

MATCH(B33,{“JAN”,”FEB”,”MAR”,”APR”,”MAY”,”JUN”,”JUL”,”AUG”,”SEP”,”OCT”,”NOV”,”DEC”},0)

Will return 1 for “JAN”, etc.

Extends easily for full month names (change “JAN” to “January” in the formula).

By: Ash Fernandes

Ash Fernandes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:10:50 +0000

Great info, precisely what I was looking out for. Thank you very much

By: saurabh

saurabh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:41:10 +0000

Thanks a lot