MonthName Function

Bmaho · Oct 30, 2017

Can anyone help me write a macro for a school project I am working on? I think I need to use a MonthName function, I'm not sure how though. The question is:

Write a Macro, that will put the employee’s month of birth in column “Birth Month”, for each employee in the database. Month should be in text, e.g., March, May etc. Must write VBA code from scratch.

The following is a sample of the worksheet, The Range for the following on my worksheet is A8:M61 and the "Birth Month" column where the name of the month goes is M8.

Emp ID

Last Name

First Name

Department

Division

Salary

Start Date

Birth Date

Age

Years In Service

New Salary 1

New Salary 2

Birth Month

1011

Gorton

Hazel

Accounting

Copier

$27,597.85

2/3/2000

11/21/1964

53

18

1012

Preston

Liza

Engineering

Printer

$43,394.15

1/26/2006

12/2/1984

33

12

1041

Tercan

Robert

R and D

Printer

$28,043.68

4/16/2002

9/21/1965

52

16

1054

Smith

Howard

Art

Copier

$25,176.06

4/16/2009

8/9/1987

30

9

1055

Albert

Maxine

Marketing

Copier

$26,040.56

4/8/1999

8/20/1967

50

19

1075

Kane

Sheryl

Art

Printer

$23,239.44

8/7/2006

8/28/1979

38

11

1152

Henders

Mark

Accounting

Printer

$26,646.20

1/21/2000

10/23/1971

46

18

1153

Plant

Allen

Accounting

Printer

$28,043.68

1/13/2009

11/3/1963

54

9

1167

Berwick

Sam

Marketing

Copier

$31,913.88

4/18/2001

9/28/1970

47

17

1168

Asonte

Toni

Engineering

Fax

$63,035.88

4/10/1999

7/8/1970

47

19

alansidman · Oct 30, 2017

Re: MonthName Function HELP?

In Birth month column =H2 and format custom "mmmm"

njimack · Oct 30, 2017

Re: MonthName Function HELP?

=TEXT(H2,"mmmm")

Rick Rothstein · Oct 30, 2017

Bmaho said:
Can anyone help me write a macro for a school project I am working on?

The question is:

Write a Macro, that will put the employee’s month of birth in column “Birth Month”, for each employee in the database. Month should be in text, e.g., March, May etc. Must write VBA code from scratch.

Sure sounds like you are asking us to do your homework for you.

TotallyConfused · Oct 30, 2017

Rick Rothstein said:
Sure sounds like you are asking us to do your homework for you.

Hello Rick

My thoughts exactly, however, it worked, didn’t it? Though it sounds as if he/she are expected to write a VBA macro, so I doubt the instructor would accept the answer given here. Now why couldn’t I have found a site like this when I was in university?

TotallyConfused

Bmaho · Oct 30, 2017

Yes I am trying to get help understanding my homework. I said it is for my school project.

Rick Rothstein · Oct 30, 2017

Bmaho said:
Yes I am trying to get help understanding my homework. I said it is for my school project.

The way you worded your question, it sounded like you were asking us to give you the full VB code for it, which we will not (or at least should not) do. I'll give you a hint, though. Look at Message #3 , the VB equivalent function is Format... look up the help files for Format and see if you can work out the code from that.

Bmaho · Oct 30, 2017

Rick Rothstein said:
The way you worded your question, it sounded like you were asking us to give you the full VB code for it, which we will not (or at least should not) do. I'll give you a hint, though. Look at Message #3 , the VB equivalent function is Format... look up the help files for Format and see if you can work out the code from that.

I understand, but I am just trying to get some guidance. Maybe you can help me with what I'm doing wrong, I'm lost. This is what I have written:

Sub Q_8()

Range("A8:M8").Select

Do Until ActiveCell = ""
ActiveCell.Range("A1:M1").Select

Format (ActiveCell.Offset(0, 12) = MonthName(ActiveCell.Offset(0, 7), False))

ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
End Sub

Rick Rothstein · Oct 30, 2017

Bmaho said:
I understand, but I am just trying to get some guidance. Maybe you can help me with what I'm doing wrong, I'm lost. This is what I have written:

Sub Q_8()

Range("A8:M8").Select

Do Until ActiveCell = ""
ActiveCell.Range("A1:M1").Select

Format (ActiveCell.Offset(0, 12) = MonthName(ActiveCell.Offset(0, 7), False))

ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
End Sub

Given your apparent insistence (need?) to use the MonthName function, I may have steered you slightly wrong in my previous posting. The Format function can be made to do the same thing as the MonthName function, so you would use either one or the other of them to assign the month name to the active cell. The problem I have with using the MonthName function is you need the month number of the date to get the month name whereas the Format function can give you the month name directly from the date. i am hoping what I said here is enough to lead you to a solution. If not, post back asking for clarification, but tell us what it is that is unclear to you. My (our) hope is to lead you to developing the solution on your own as that will stick with you more for use in future coding than if we simply give you the answer.

Bmaho · Oct 30, 2017

Rick Rothstein said:
Given your apparent insistence (need?) to use the MonthName function, I may have steered you slightly wrong in my previous posting. The Format function can be made to do the same thing as the MonthName function, so you would use either one or the other of them to assign the month name to the active cell. The problem I have with using the MonthName function is you need the month number of the date to get the month name whereas the Format function can give you the month name directly from the date. i am hoping what I said here is enough to lead you to a solution. If not, post back asking for clarification, but tell us what it is that is unclear to you. My (our) hope is to lead you to developing the solution on your own as that will stick with you more for use in future coding than if we simply give you the answer.

Thank you Rick,

I do appreciate the help I have received from this forum and my goal is to learn, and for what I learn to stick. I am using the MonthName function because that is the function the professor taught. I may be mistaken, but would Format only reformat the dates in "Date of birth" (column H) to display the month name? What I am trying to do is use the dates in column "H" to display the "birth month" in column "M". Prior to trying to add Format to the code, I was using the same code I posted, but without Format in it.

MonthName Function

Bmaho

New Member

Excel Facts

alansidman

Well-known Member

njimack

Well-known Member

Rick Rothstein

MrExcel MVP

TotallyConfused

Board Regular

Bmaho

New Member

Rick Rothstein

MrExcel MVP

Bmaho

New Member

Rick Rothstein

MrExcel MVP

Bmaho

New Member

Similar threads

Forum statistics

Share this page

MonthName Function

New Member

Excel Facts

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

MrExcel MVP

Board Regular

New Member

MrExcel MVP

New Member

MrExcel MVP

New Member

Similar threads

Forum statistics

Share this page

We've detected that you are using an adblocker.

Which adblocker are you using?

Disable AdBlock

Disable AdBlock Plus

Disable uBlock Origin

Disable uBlock