Microsoft Excel's Month and Weekday functions output numeric values for a given date. The Month function results in the month numbers, such as "3" for March or "12" for December.

If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.

Q. I receive Excel spreadsheets regularly that contain dates. I have to manually look up the day of the week that represents these dates. Are there any functions that can help speed this process along ...

Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy datasets.

This enables you to update the source workbook's date, allowing Excel to extract that date and make it appear in the other worksheet.