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There are a variety of functions to work with days in Excel. The day of week function (WEEKDAY) is particularly useful for planning and scheduling, for example to determine the timeframe of a project and automatically remove weekends from the total. Continue reading →

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  1. If the date field is blank how do I get the return cell day of the week to stay blank? The =WEEKDAY(A2) formula is working fine and reporting as needed into the day of the week when the date is filled in, but if the date cell is blank yet (haven't added that data line yet) how do I get the day of the week cell to stay blank also?

    1. Try:

      =iferror(weekday(a2), " ")

  3. hi
    i want to calculate total working days in a whole month using conditions that where in the cell there is Saturday and sunday dont count it, skip it and count only mon, tue, wed, thu, fri as working day.
    how i can find working days using countif or any other fuction?
    please help

  4. i need the date range for example
    1-10-2018
    2-10-2018
    if 3 is Sunday then excluded the next day enter / delete the Sunday
    04-10-2018
    05-10-2018

  5. Hi,

    I need a formula which calculates if a person has worked on 2 consecutive Fridays in a month.

  6. I need to convert week in to days. for example if I enter Week-23 in 52 weeks of a year automatically it will fill the dates 5 working days form Monday to Friday.
    Any one help please.

  7. I need a formula that will skip Sunday. I start with a date from another cell,"Friday, October 19, 2018". In the next cell I write =A3+1, but I must miss Sunday. How do I write a formula for this?

  8. I'm struggling with my Report, My requirement is based on Date Column in my Excel

    1. to fetch Today() and Today()+1 from weekdays starting from Monday to Thursday and

    2. For Friday, it has to fetch the row from friday,Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

    I have created a column index after date column and trying to apply the below formula, But it is not working. Could anyone please help?

    (A2 is my date column)

    =IF((AND(WEEKDAY(A2,1)=1,WEEKDAY(A2,1)=2,WEEKDAY(A2,1)=6,WEEKDAY(A2,1)=7)),"","Closed"),
    IF((AND(A2>=TODAY(), A2<=TODAY()+1)), "", "Closed")

  9. i need your help, our work days (Sunday to Thursday), once you input the date the following status should be done like these;

    1. if the closing date is today = status "Today"
    2. if the closing date before 2 days = status "Attention required!"
    3. if the closing date before 3 to 7 days= status "Still time"
    4. if the closing date past = status "Overdue"
    5. if the closing days are day off (Friday and Saturday) it should not be counted.

  10. I have an excel sheet Where I need one column to display a date and another collum to display what date is 4 days away but only count business days. For example, Monday to display that same Friday in the next column, Tuesday to display the following Monday's date, Wednesday the next Tuesday so on and so on.

    1. CJ:
      I think what you want to use is the WORKDAY function.
      Where the first date is in A18 and you want a workday 4 days from the date in A18 enter this in B18:
      =WORKDAY(A18,4)
      So, if the date in A18 is 6/7/18 four workdays forward is displayed in B18 as 6/13/18.
      If you need to know the day of the week 6/13/18 is then this will show it in C18:
      =CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B4),"Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat")
      You can enter "Sunday" or "SU" or Sunday in another language.

  11. I need a formula that will tell me if a certain date is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th day of the week.

    1. Tammy:
      There is a complete explanation of this topic here:
      https://support.office.com/en-us/article/WEEKDAY-function-60E44483-2ED1-439F-8BD0-E404C190949A
      Essentially you enter the date you're interested in and either accept Excel's default return type using Sunday(1) through Saturday(7) or enter the optional return type. It looks like this with the dat in A1:
      WEEKDAY(A1) with the default return type or WEEKDAY(A1,2)
      with return type 2. Return type 2 is Monday(1) through Sunday (7).

  12. If today is Friday so my value should be 30 otherwise value is 0. Date
    format is DD/MM/YYYY ( 01-May-1991).

    Example is below mention. I hope you give your response earliest.

    Date Results
    1-May-91 = if Friday = 30 other wise 0

    Note:- Friday is not mentioned in the data which i have require

    1. Mahendra:
      If you do not need to display the word "Friday" then this will work:
      =IF(WEEKDAY(A33)=6,30,0)
      Excel's normal setting is that Friday is 6.
      If you need to display the day's word it might be easiest to use a helper cell. In the helper cell you could enter:
      =CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(A33),"Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat")
      or a number of other variations on this technique all of which are explained here in AbleBits. Just search Weekday Function.

  13. Hi

    I’m working on a table to calculate shift allowance. Every day,we have staffs working three shifts.

    In column A, it’s a weekday(Fri). So I need a result on Row 2, to display WD WA WN in their respective columns A1 A2 A3. Likewise for Public holiday (PH)

    Column A. Column B
    1 2 3 4 5 6
    Fri. PH
    Row 2. WD WA WN. SD SA SN

    WD = weekday day shift
    WA = weekday afternoon shift
    WN = weekday night shift
    SD = weekend or PH day
    And so on

    Thanks in advance

  14. =days() Sept 1, Sept 15th = 14 days in excel. It is actually 15 days. How do I count all days in excel?

    Thanks!

  15. Hi,

    I'm working on students tuition, so if a student starts on a specific date then the tuition applied on that date for every month. I have a problem when a student, for example, has started on April 20, then May 20 is a weekend so the tuition is not applied how to fix that problem, please.

  16. Hello, I am working with a report that is only returning M-F data, but I need it to also return Saturday and Sunday info.
    the formula i have is:
    =IF(AND(WEEKDAY(B3-1)1),B3-1,IF(AND(WEEKDAY(B3-2)1),B3-2,B3-3))
    how do i change it to give me the whole week? 7 dyas.
    thank you so much!

    vlad

  17. Hello
    I have a column with dates (only workdays M-F) starting from 1/2/2002 and goes all the way into 2009. I need to find out if there are any missing workdays in that column. Can you please help?
    Thank you

  18. How to count days of a period without considering the days in thestarting date

    Ex: 01-feb-2017 to 7-dec-2017

    Counting to be started from 01-March-2017

    Thank you

  19. How to count days of a period without considering the days in thestarting date

    Ex: 01-feb-2017 to 7-dec-2017

    Counting to be started from 01-March-2017

  20. How to converte holiday in next working day

    9560429141

  21. I have a spread sheet where i have a cell for sum of time worked for Monday through to Thursday(N,18) with an adjacent cell(O,18) for Friday. I also have a date cell(I,1) using the =TODAY() with adjacent cell(O,1) showing the day (=TEXT(I1,"dddd"). I want to hide the value of N18 when (O,1) = Friday and hide the value of (O,18) when (O,1) when (O,1) = Monday-Thursday. I can't seem to get the right start on this.

  22. I need help I have a formula returning a date from another date but I only want it to return weekdays.
    Columns are
    Release date Training date
    3/15/2018 =DATE(YEAR(A2), MONTH(A2), DAY(A2)+2)

    It calculates 03/17/2018 in the field but that is a weekend.

  23. Hi,

    I need:
    to establish the average time taken between start and end dates/times across multiple rows.

    The start & end data provided is presented in two separate columns 'DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM' and I need the difference per row then an average of the total rows.

    I have tried:
    =INT(end-start)&" days "&TEXT(end-start,"h"" hrs ""m"" mins """) to extract the day/hour/minute difference between start and end per row but cannot find a formula that will allow me to work out the average based on these results.

    Result will need to be specific to the minute.

    Please can you suggest/advise.

    Many thanks
    Alex

  24. Hi,

    Is it possible to compute a cell if date is weekday and not holiday or weekend? and compute a cell if date is weekend or holiday only?

  25. There are 3 shifts, Every shift needs change duty after a Week (Sunday) of the month through 24:00 hrs. as given below detail.

    Date: Friday,01/12/2017
    Shift:A 00:00 TO 08:00 hrs (Night-duty)
    Shift:B 08:00 TO 16:00 hrs (Morning-duty)
    Shift:C 16:00 TO 24:00 hrs (Evening-duty)

    Date: Saturday,02/12/2017
    Shift:A 00:00 TO 08:00 hrs (Night-duty)
    Shift:B 08:00 TO 16:00 hrs (Morning-duty)
    Shift:C 16:00 TO 24:00 hrs (Evening-duty)

    Date: Sunday,03/12/2017
    Shift:A 00:00 TO 08:00 hrs (Night-duty)
    Shift:B 08:00 TO 16:00 hrs (Morning-duty)
    Shift:C 16:00 TO 24:00 hrs (Evening-duty)

    Date: Monday,04/12/2017 (Duty Shift would be Changed)
    Shift:A 16:00 TO 24:00 hrs (Evening-duty)
    Shift:B 00:00 TO 08:00 hrs (Night-duty)
    Shift:C 08:00 TO 16:00 hrs (Morning-duty)

    Please help me that how to set formula in excel that will show me Shifts: A, B or C will perform their duties on given date in 24:00 hrs.

    May kindly please be helped me in this case. in advance I shall be very thankful for him/her.

    1. Hello,

      I'm afraid there's no easy way to solve your task with a formula. Using a VBA macro would be the best option here.

      However, since we do not cover the programming area (VBA-related questions), I can advice you to try and look for the solution in VBA sections on mrexcel.com or excelforum.com.

      Sorry I can't assist you better.

  26. Hi Dear,
    pls solve my below problem how i can calculate number of days without holidays. Please send me formula urgently.

    Wednesday,November, 01, 2017 to Saturday,November, 18, 2017

    1. Hi Zahid,

      Please try to use one of the following formulas:

      1. =NETWORKDAYS(DATE(2017,11,1),DATE(2017,11,18),{"11/01/2017","11/02/2017"})
      This formula returns the number of working days between two dates, excluding weekends and any holidays specified in curly brackets.

      2. =NETWORKDAYS.INTL(DATE(2017,11,1),DATE(2017,11,18),1,{"11/01/2017","11/02/2017"})
      This formula does the same as the previous one. The difference is that you can adjust the calculation of weekends in the formula by changing the highlighted parameter if necessary.

      Hope this will work for you.

  27. how to calculate week day for example present=23,leave=8,night shift=2
    week of=4 then salary-19000 ,so how can calculate salary and how to reduce week day

    1. Hello, Vinitha,
      For me to understand the problem better, please send me a small sample workbook with your source data and the result you expect to get to support@ablebits.com. Please don't worry if you have confidential information there, we never disclose the data we get from our customers and delete it as soon as the problem is resolved.
      Please also don't forget to include the link to this comment into your email.
      I'll look into your task and try to help.

  28. if weekday of a date cell is falling on monday or Wednesday or Friday the cell should display a content or if the weekday of a date cell is falling on Tuesday Thursday Saturday I want to display another content.

    1. Hello,

      IN SHEET1 I have the falowing list.
      M W F T T S
      A1 = NAME 1 b2 = NAME 2
      A2 = TOPIC B3 = TOPIC 2
      A3 = 25-AUG-17 B4 = 13-SEP-17
      A4 = 20-DEC-17 B5 = 28-OCT-17
      A5 = NO.STU B6 = NO.STU

      In SHEET2 I have heading from 1-Jul-17 - 31-Dec-17 in each cell.

      as per date in a3 to a4 a i want to display the content available :
      C2 = SHEET1!A1 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17
      C3 = SHEET1!A2 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17
      C4 = SHEET1!A5 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17

      D2 = SHEET1!B1 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17
      D3 = SHEET1!B2 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17
      D4 = SHEET1!B5 IF date in c1 falls in b/w 25-aug to 20 dec 17

      I want a single formula to be applied for all cell in a row.

      PLEASE REPLAY

    2. What can be the formula for this

  29. Hi,
    Please help me out to below question.

    If you have two id that condition is Eligible otherwise not eligible

    Voter ID Pan No. Aadhar No. Result
    45786 8022331 Eligible
    321321RD Not Eligible
    151165R 888211221 Eligible
    8825645 Not Eligible

  30. please advice.
    I'm creating a column that the result of dates come up on Tuesdays (on or before only) from another cell.

    (cell A2)
    Monday, August 28, 2017

    (cell B2) my formula:
    =IF(A2="","",A2-WEEKDAY(A2)+3)

    (cell B2) result:
    Tuesday, August 29, 2017 (I want this to be-
    Tuesday, August 22, 2017)

    but on another date like-

    Thursday, September 21, 2017

    (using the same formula as above, the result is correct or the way I prefer it which is-

    Tuesday, September 19, 2017

    I'll greatly appreciate your help.

  31. Please advise, I need to calculate the payment day for a vendor that has terms of 45 days , excluding weekends but and this is the but, if payment is set a Monday move to Tuesday . Is just one vendor with this criteria.

    Thank you

  32. please help me.
    if i have only a one date and when the date is complete numbers is increase day by day when the date is increase and highlight the cell in excel.

  33. Please can you help me with a formula in excel that will show me if the date I enter in a cell is weekend. Specifically, I need Date error message to be return if date is sat or Sunday. Thanks

  34. THANK YOU, I NEEDED THIS.

  35. Can you please help me with my problem? I have a listing of 2016 (ie) daily LIBOR rates. I need to figure out the LIBOR rate 2 business days before the 15th (i.e) of each month. Is there a way to set up a conditional formatting or a formula for this? Appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

  36. For many years I have recorded the date on which my roses bloom each year. The date is in the format dd/mm/year. I now want a formula that runs through these dates and identifies the earliest date and the latest date on which the roses flowered. My current formula always returns, say, 01/06/2012 as earlier than 01/05/2015. I want to be able to ignore the year and find a formula that in my example records 01/05 as earlier than 01/06. In other words, when searching for the earliest or latest I want to ignore the year and just focus on the days and months. Any ideas?

  37. I need to set up a table with backdating from an event date. And in that if any of those dates are Sat/Sunday, it should automatically change it to Friday. Is it possible to set a formula so that the dates returned are always on a Friday for Saturday and Sunday.

    For Eg: 20th May and 21st May is the weekend. So if i enter that day, it should automatically change to 19th May(Friday).

  38. Today i went for an interview.the interviewer asked to me suppose the employee joins today. after 3 month i want to find out the employee joining date.which method is used in excel.please tell me actually i didnot answer the question.

  39. What formula can I use to pull next weekday to order from a list 246 (day of wk) for example sunday is 1 for us. So I want to get next order date from my list. Then I want to add a formula to get delivery date if it is 10 days add if holidays in between. Last there is a third factor some times we don't order cycle we order every 14,21 or 28 dat which we would add to delivery. Tired counting which day do we order next and adding delivery led time if we can accomplish in formulas.
    Thanks for the help, going in circles to figure it out.

  40. We have set meeting dates throughout the year (weekdays only), notice must be given 10 days before and then 3 days before. The notice needs to be given on a weekday. I am very new to formulas and find this a little over my head. Are you able to give me a formula or a step by step?

    1. Hello, AJ,

      would you please specify what notice you want to see? Do you want a specifically coloured cell or something else? How is your data stored, what columns do you have? Please, give us more details on your task so we could help you better.

  41. Earlier you acknowledged:
    "Note. Though the WEEKDAY function is available in all Excel versions, from Excel 2013 to 2000, the return_type values 11 through 17 were introduced in Excel 2010 only, therefore they cannot be used in earlier versions."

    So what are the differences between the single digit and two digit Return_types? For example, 2 appears to do the same thing as 11.

    1. Hi Dave,

      Absolutely so, 2 does the same thing as 11. The difference is that 11 can be used only in Excel 2010 and higher versions, while 2 works in all versions of Excel 2000 to 2016.

  42. Hi,

    j juts need automatic date count, example if i type 1 in other cell have to show 1 days, if i type 2 it has to count 2 days,

    can you help me out please

  43. Hi,

    I have something to ask about the dates, because i want to make an automatic Present and Holiday for the days of Monday to Thursdays = Present and for Friday is = Holiday please help me

  44. Hi,
    If I have a number let's say 11, how can I get number of weeks like 2 week, 2 days
    instead of 2.2

    Please help

  45. For my previous question, I got this syntax: =F2-DATE(YEAR(F2);1;0; however, it only extracts all the date numbers in a year. i.e. 1,2,3,...364,365,1,2,3,...365,366,1,2,3,.... what I wanted was for a sytax that would extract the list for each days of a year recurring every month.
    Thanks for your support

  46. Hello,

    Thanks for the informative article. I was intereted to know how to get the list of dates of a year in each month but only till the end of each month. Eg. 1,2,3...29,30,1,2,3,...27,28,1,2,3,...29,30,31,1,2,3...
    Thanks

  47. Hi,

    I stuck with a formula here. I have A2 (Work Start Date) B2 (Traget Completion Date) and B3 (Actual completion Date)and delays in B4. I want to retun the following logical formula. Can you please help.

    So,B4 = If B3 is blank return TODAY - B2.

    Thank you.
    Regards
    SPD

  48. Hi,

    I would like to ask how can I calculate the number of days in this scenario

    Item Qty Date In (start) Date Out No. of Days No. of Stocks
    A 1 2-2-2017 1
    B 1 2-2-2017 2-14-2017 0

    How can i make a conditions that will show if there is no date out they will count the days base on the date today.

    Hope you can help me.

    Thank you.

    nina

  49. Hi
    Making a capacity grid based on two things weekdays and the day.
    For instance at the top I have Week 1 with a drop down going to Week 13 Right underneath i want to have the corresponding dates according to the week and month. Example. February week 2- 2/13-2/17. I want to be able to change the week and the dates change with it automatically. I didn't put the month in but I guess that's important huh???
    Any advice would be great

  50. Hello, I would like to highlight a cell as a marker for today and put word "Today" as an indicator for today in highlighted cell A1. When today is over, I would like that the word "Today" that already was in cell A1 moves to cell A2 with the same highlight, and it does not show in cell A1 because it belonged to yesterday's indicator.
    What is the formula? Thanks

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