That's the way you tell the system what you want it to do. When an airplane is landing there is a radar beacon at the far end of the runway that tells the aircraft if it is too high or too low, too far right or too far left, and how much in all those cases.
Create a new variable whose value is a month name. Note: If your numeric is a SAS date value (the number of days since January 1, 1960) you can use the MONNAMEw. format to either display the SAS date as its month name or create a new variable using the PUT function. See Sample 1. If you have a numeric with values 1-12, you'll need a user-defined format. See Sample 2.
What I want to do is make a formula from Cell G3 in Sheet2 that looks at column A in Sheet1 and calculates the number of cells that contain the word January. The cells that contain the name of a month in Sheet1 have the full date (ie. January 1, 2012) so I'm hoping to find a formula that recognizes one word within the cell so it can calculate the number of entries in a month. Any help would be appreciated. I'm not overly experienced with Excel formulas lol.