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how do I show last month's name/date only

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JSeidel

JSeidel

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Jan 10, 2003
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I am looking to fill in the following statement:

Last Month's Statistics
Month Name:

How do I write a formula to say only show the name for last month?

thanks!
 
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The following will give you "December".

monthname(month(dateadd("m",-1,currentdate))) Mike

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the function - monthname - is available example
monthname({my_date})

or

totext({my_date}, "MMMM")

will return the month name as well
 
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