Coverting Month text to a Number

[proctk]

Hi

I want to have a foluma that will pull the month from the =Today() Function

Example it the date is 25-Jan-05 Lotacted in cell B4 then I want the number "1" to be in Cell B5

Once the month changes to Feb then the value in B5 should automaticlly change to 2

Help Please

 

[IML]

You can use
=MONTH(B5)

 

[Joe4]

Use the MONTH function,

i.e. If you date is in cell A5, then =MONTH(A5)

Be sure to format this cell as a number, not a date.

 

[proctk]

Thank you for the reply, I should have figured that out Myself

I think that this is a little more challenging

I want to no the number of months that have pased between two dates

I.E. Oct 01 04 to Jan 25 05 represents 117 days

How many have passed

Jan 25 05 is in cell B5 and Oct 01 04 is in cell B4

Thank you once again

 

[Joe4]

Let's say you wanted to subtract the date in cell B1 from the date in A1 and return the number of months difference. This would work:

=((YEAR(A1)-YEAR(B1))*12)+MONTH(A1)-MONTH(B1)

Formatted resulting cell as number.

If there is rounding, you may need to play around with it a little, or use the Day function also to determine whether to add or subtract 1.