Question : How do i display month abbeviations instead of months in the proposed solution

Hi, The solution below works great. However, how would i show only the monthly abbreviations (OCT, NOV, DEC, etc.) instead of the full month names
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Hi, I have a range of headers in excel that are all select boxes containing months. Based on selection of any of the drop downs, I would like for the entire range to populate correctly.

For instance, if there is a 1X3 list and the user picks the first cell on the left as January, how could i make the adjacent two cells populate with February and March.
Alternatively, if the user picked March from the right, the previous two cells would populate with February and January.
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A solution has been posted if this behavior is to occur once in the worksheet. However, there are multiple places on a single worksheet that require user selection of months.

So, the range could be a 1X3 range when three montly headers need to be populated from B1:D1. But there is another range in B50:G50 that requires 6 monthly headers to be populated.

The original solution (that works great) is here, but according to the responder, the code needs to be changed to accomodate multiple selection areas:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim rngMonitor As Range, rngMonthEntry As Range, rngCell As Range
Dim lngCol As Long
Dim dteEntry As Date
On Error Resume Next
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.EnableEvents = False
End With
Set rngMonitor = Range("B1:D1")
Set rngMonthEntry = Intersect(Target, rngMonitor)
If Not rngMonthEntry Is Nothing Then
lngCol = rngMonthEntry.Column - rngMonitor.Column
dteEntry = DateAdd("m", -lngCol, DateValue("1-" & rngMonthEntry.Value & "-2009"))
For Each rngCell In rngMonitor
rngCell.Value = Format(dteEntry, "mmmm")
dteEntry = DateAdd("m", 1, dteEntry)
Next rngCell
End If
With Application
.EnableEvents = True
.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
End Sub
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Answer : How do i display month abbeviations instead of months in the proposed solution

Hello username5000,

Try replacing:
rngCell.Value = Format(dteEntry, "mmmm")
with
rngCell.Value = Format(dteEntry, "dd mmm yyyy")

Regards,

chris_bottomley

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Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    Dim rngMonitor As Range, rngMonthEntry As Range, rngCell As Range
    Dim lngCol As Long
    Dim dteEntry As Date
    On Error Resume Next
    With Application
        .ScreenUpdating = False
        .EnableEvents = False
    End With
    Set rngMonitor = Range("B1:D1")
    Set rngMonthEntry = Intersect(Target, rngMonitor)
    If Not rngMonthEntry Is Nothing Then
        lngCol = rngMonthEntry.Column - rngMonitor.Column
        dteEntry = DateAdd("m", -lngCol, DateValue("1-" & rngMonthEntry.Value & "-2009"))
        For Each rngCell In rngMonitor
'            rngCell.Value = Format(dteEntry, "mmmm")
            rngCell.Value = Format(dteEntry, "dd mmm yyyy")
            dteEntry = DateAdd("m", 1, dteEntry)
        Next rngCell
    End If
    With Application
        .EnableEvents = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
    End With 
End Sub

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