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    Question How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    I have a list with delivery times from a supplier where i have fixed shipment days (Tuesday and Friday) every week.

    in my data set i often have all kinds of dates (different week days)

    does anyone know a formula where i can round down a certain date to either the closest Tuesday or Friday.

    e.g:
    - delivery date Wednesday Thursday need to be rounded down to Tuesday (same week)
    - Delivery date Monday needs to be rounded down to Friday (the week before)
    - If the delivery date is already a Tuesday or a Friday i just need to keep that date.

    any help would be highly appreciated.
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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    With the date in B2 how about
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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    In F2 then copy down.
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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    Thanks Fluff13 that seems to work. but this actually raises an extra question.

    i have a list of bankholidays and i would like to avoid that the formula rounds down to a bank holiday. it should round down to either the tuesday or the friday before the holiday.

    e.g.

    - Monday 5. April would round down to Friday 2. April.
    But 2. April is "Easter Friday" and therefore in this case I would like the formula to round down to Tuesday 30. March instead.

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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    WORKDAY.INTL has a parameter for holiday list: have you tried adding that?

    =WORKDAY.INTL(B2+1,-1,"1011011",holidays) where "Holidays" is a list (named range?) of holiday dates.
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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    JohnTopley: thankyou for your input. it seems to have solved my problem.

    im trying to figure out the logic of the Workday.intl formula and i get most of it. but im struggeling to figure out why i need to add +1 to the date and the subtract -1 in the next step. B2+1,-1.

    can you help me explaining this

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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    Quote Originally Posted by MaxPoulsen View Post
    but im struggeling to figure out why i need to add +1 to the date and the subtract -1 in the next step. B2+1,-1
    Try place together to see the difference:
    (1) =WORKDAY.INTL(B2,-1,"1011011",$R$1:$R$4)
    and
    (2) =WORKDAY.INTL(B2+1,-1,"1011011",$R$1:$R$4)

    If B2 fell into tue or fri or holidays, i.e, B2="8-Jan-2021" (Fri)
    (1) came back to prv tue 5-Jan
    (2) stay in same day (Fri).
    +1 then -1, to avoid this.
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    Re: How to round a date to one of two different weekdays

    arr i see, thanks for clarifying.

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