“MMMM yy”-date in google spreadsheet

Question

I have a google spreadsheet in which I want a date with only the name of the month and the year, like September 2011, and I also want the month and year to be easil

Answer 1

Google Spreadsheet does not yet permit you to apply a custom number format to a cell.

You can of course enter the date into a cell, and then reference that date in a second cell:

A1:4/27/2010, A2=TEXT(A1;"MMMM yy")

This would meet your requirements: it would display the date the way you wanted, and allow the date to be easily changeable.

But it has the undesirable side effect of having the date appearing twice on the sheet. I often work around side effects like this by printing or exporting a range instead of the entire sheet. So maybe there is also a practical workaround in your case.