VBA Current Month Name

Get Current Month Name From Today’s Date using Excel VBA Functions. Name of the current month plays an important major role of a date. We can get current month name using month function and can summarize data with it. Once we get month name we can Format name of the month by using format function as per our requirement.

VBA Find Name of the Current Month:

Let us see the procedure how to get name of the month from today’s date using MonthName function.

'Procedure to find Name of the Current Month From Date
Sub VBA_Get_Current_Month_Name()
    
    'Variable declaration
    Dim sMonth_Name As String

    'Retrieve month Name from date
    sMonth_Name = MonthName(Month(Date))

    'Display month name
    MsgBox "Today's Date is " & Date & ", And " & vbCrLf & _
    "Current Month name is : " & sMonth_Name, vbInformation, "Month Name From Date"
    
End Sub

Explanation: In the above procedure we have used Month, Date and MonthName VBA functions. Here Month function is used to display month number. MonthName function helps to generate name of the month from specified month number. Here is the output screenshot for your reference.

Format Name of the Month:

We have different format methods to format name of the month. You can find output in an immediate window.

'Format Name of the Month
Sub VBA_Format_Month_Name()
    
    'Variable declaration
    Dim sMonth_Name As String
    
    sMonth_Name = Format("01/01/2018", "m")
    Debug.Print sMonth_Name
    
    sMonth_Name = Format("01/01/2018", "mm")
    Debug.Print sMonth_Name
    
    sMonth_Name = Format("01/01/2018", "mmm")
    Debug.Print sMonth_Name
    
    sMonth_Name = Format("01/01/2018", "mmmm")
    Debug.Print sMonth_Name
        
End Sub

Output screenshot: Here is the output screenshot of the above macro procedure. we have shown four different format methods.

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