Calculated Column to Write out the Month

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I have many many lists that I want to group by month based on their creation date (or other date column). In order to do I thought I'd have to add a calculated column and then add a horrific formula of nested IF's.

Thankfully this formula does the trick: =TEXT([Article Date],"MMMM")

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