If you have a cell with the date 1/8/2023, then highlight the cell, click on the Home ribbon and find the drop-down for Number Format. Click More Number Formats at the end of the list. Choose Custom category, then type the following options in the ‘Type’ field:
• d-mmm – this will display the date as 1-Aug
• dd-mmm – this will display as 01-Aug
•dd-mm – this will display as 01-08
• dd/mm – this will display as 01/08
• mmmd – this will display as Aug1
Have a play and get any date to display any way you want.

What’s your staring point? Do you have full dates (e.g., mm-dd-yy) in their own column? And what’s your desired end point? Share some more details and I’ll help you troubleshoot.

Hi Lane,

You’d need to re-code your months with (1) a nested IFs formula or (2) a separate lookup table.

I rarely do this, but… feel free to email me directly — Ann@DepictDataStudio.com. This would be a great how-to example for a future blog post!

Ann