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SharePoint month based data in lists and date formatting functions in SharePoint

4. March 2011

There is no obvious solution available in SharePoint lists to filter list data based on month. However, we can create a calculated field to provide a column which would display Month info. Then we can use that month column to group data based on months.

Here is the simple 2 step procedure:

1. Create a new calculated field and use following formula to display month out of the modified date:
=TEXT(Modified,"MMMM")

This formula will display month extracted from "Modified" date.

2. Now, use this newly created column to filter list data in Groups.

That's it!

Further formatting options using =TEXT() function are:

November 2008 =TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yyyy")

November 08 =TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yy")

Nov 08 =TEXT([Modified],"mmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yy")

10 08 =TEXT([Modified],"mm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yy")

10 08 =TEXT([Modified],"m")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yy")

November Monday 2008 =TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"dddd")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yyyy")

November Mon 2008 =TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"ddd")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yyyy")

November 17 2008 =TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"dd")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"yyyy")
Monday November 17th, 2008 =TEXT([Modified],"dddd")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"mmmm")&" "&TEXT([Modified],"d")&"th, "&TEXT([Modified],"yyyy")

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