How to get first month of the year from TODAY Function in Excel?

Question

In a excel sheet range A1:A12 , I need months like:

Jan 2020 to Dec 2020 for current year.

and Jan 2021 to Dec 2021 for next year. and so on. Automatically.

I google it but did not find any suitable result.

Plz help me and ignore my weak English and grammar.

Thank You.

Answer 1

Use below formula-

=TEXT(DATE(2020+INT(ROW()/13),MOD(ROW(),13)+INT(ROW()/13),1),"mmm-yyyy")

Answer 2

Let's say you want a real date, using the 1st of each month (you can then format the cells to just show mmm yyyy or whatever other format you like). In your first cell enter:

=DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),ROWS($A$1:$A1),1)

and copy it down. If you actually want the month as text, just wrap that in the TEXT function:

=TEXT(DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),ROWS($A$1:$A1),1),"mmm yyyy")

Note that the DATE function will happily adjust the year if you pass a month number greater than 12.

Answer 3

To get This using =TODAY() function you have to use 2 cells.

Let's use A1 and B1 as the 2 cells. In A1 you will display today's dat as dd/mm/yyyy

=TODAY() type this in A1

In B1 you will convert it to month and year.

=TEXT(A1,"mmm-yyyy") type this in B1

But using this method you can only get this month.