Formatting date - caps (Office XP)

[JC@OR]

Hi gang,
I want to format my date with the first letter of the month capitalize.
My Windows and Excel are in French and usually the month does not take a capital on the first letter unless it's a title.
I want to format my date to show January 2009. I
I personalized my format but can't seem to make the "J" in caps.
Any ideas how I could do this?
Tks

[HansV]

I don't think you can do this with the French names of the months such as janvier etc.
But you can specify that Excel should use English names even on a French system:
- Select the cells you want to format.
- Select Format | Cells...
- Activate the Number tab (#1 in the screenshot)
- Select Date in the list of categories (#2 in the screenshot)
- Select English (UK) or English (United States) from the Locale dropdown (#3 in the screenshot).
- Select a date format.
- If you want to customize it, select Custom in the list of categories AFTER selecting a format that resembles the one you want.