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Aj72
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Join Month Name with Year

I have a DD/MM/YYYY column; I want to extract & concatenate Month Name & YYYY into a new column.

Can this be completed in one fell swoop? So new column, Month Name, " ", YYYY.

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watkinnc
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Yes, I assumed your dates were type date. If they are text values, and really are "MM/DD/YYYY", first just change that column to type date. Then the list column expression should work.

 

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Aj72
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My apologies for this, I'm getting a cyclic reference error 🤔
= Table.AddColumn(#"Table 3 (Sheet1)", "Mo/Yr", each Date.MonthName([Leavers by date]) & " " & Text.From(Date.Year([Leavers by date])), type text)

watkinnc
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= Table.AddColumn(PriorStepOrTableName, "Mo/Yr", each Date.MonthName([Date]) & " " & Text.From(Date.Year([Date])), type text)

 

--Nate


I’m usually answering from my phone, which means the results are visualized only in my mind. You’ll need to use my answer to know that it works—but it will work!!
Aj72
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Thanks watkinnc, however I'm getting an error in the new column. I'm wondering if it is to do with the original date column being in 'ABC123' format - 01/04/2022?

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