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How to get the month name from a date

✓ Verified in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3

Turn a date into its month name, like "July", for reports and labels.

The formula

AppFormulaNotes
Excel=TEXT(A2,"mmmm")"mmm" gives the short form (Jul).
Google Sheets=TEXT(A2,"mmmm")Identical.
LibreOffice Calc=TEXT(A2,"MMMM")LibreOffice format codes are case-insensitive here; "mmmm" also works.

How it works

TEXT formats a value using a format code: "mmmm" is the full month name, "mmm" the abbreviation, and "mm" the two-digit month number. The result is text, so it stays put when sorted or concatenated. Month names follow the spreadsheet's language setting — on a French locale you'd get "juillet".

Verified, not just documented

We ran =TEXT(DATE(2026,7,20),"MMMM") in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3 (headless, with forced recalculation) and it returned July — exactly the expected result. Every formula here is confirmed by actually executing it.