Determining the Month of the Year

When creating macros in either WordBasic or VBA, you may have a need to know the specific month of the year, as represented by a particular date. For instance, you may want to determine the month in which the macro is being executed. The following code will do the trick:

iMonth = Month(Date())

The Month function returns an integer value representing the numeric month of whatever date you provide. In this example, the Date function represents today's date, and so Month returns the current month, as a value ranging from 1 to 12. The Month function, again, will work in both WordBasic and VBA.