excel - Convert month name into number

Question

I have dropdown box with months populated. When a month is selected I would like to then convert it to the month number is there a function that can do this?

Eg. September = 9

Answer 1

Another way

Excel Formula

=MONTH(1&A1)

VBA

Sub Sample()
    Dim MonthNm As String
    MonthNm = "September"
    Debug.Print Month(DateValue("01 " & MonthNm & " 2012"))
End Sub

or

Sub Sample()
    Dim MonthNm As String
    MonthNm = "September"
    Debug.Print Application.Evaluate("=MONTH(1&" & Chr(34) & MonthNm & Chr(34) & ")")
End Sub

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