Hello,
I have gone back and forth trying to work out the WEEKDAY function in excel and I'm still pretty confused.
ok, I want to return the friday before or equal to a referenced date.
so if I have 28/2/14 (Friday) in A1 it will return 28/2/14
but if I have 27/2/14 (Thursday) in A1 it will return 21/2/14
Please help
This may be a more complicated function than is necessary, but it should work:
=IF(TEXT(A1,"ddd")="Mon",A1-3,IF(TEXT(A1,"ddd")="Tue",A1-4,IF(TEXT(A1,"ddd")="Wed",A1-5,IF(TEXT(A1,"ddd")="Thur",A1-6,IF(TEXT(A1,"ddd")="Fri",A1,IF(TEXT(A1="ddd")="Sat",A1-1,IF(TEXT(A1="ddd")="Sun",A1-2,"ERROR")))))))
Basically, what it's doing is saying: Check A1. If the date is a Monday, then subtract 3 days from it. If it isn't a Monday, then check to see if it is a Tuesday. If it's a Tuesday, subtract 4 days from it. If it's not a Tuesday...blablabla...check to see if it's a Friday, if it is, just return the same date. If it's not a Friday...blablabla...check to see if it's a Sunday. If it's a Sunday, subtract 2 days from it. If it's not a Sunday, then just return the word "ERROR" because you have something in A1 that does not correspond to any day of the week.
Make sure that whatever cell you put this function in is set as "Short Date" or "Long Date."
Last edited by wes228; 06-17-2014 at 10:33 PM.
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Ben Van Johnson
Thanks guys, worked a treat!
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