Date formula to display day based off of year

**Sovren** · 08-21-2012, 02:43 PM

Hi,
I've attached a file that I am working with. The process I need to follow this this...

In cell B2 I enter the current year. Cell D1 should always be 1 for January. Cell A5 should display as 'mmmm yyyy' based off of B2+D1.
I want to take that information and automatically adjust cells B7 through B48 (if necessary) to display the day. Cells A7 through A48 show as Su, M, Tu, W, etc.

So if it is the year 2013 I want cell B7 to be blank, B8 to be blank, but since January 1 2013 is on a Tuesday I want B9 (Tu from A9) to display as 1, B10 (W from A10) will display as 2. This will repeat on down the line through the 31st where B37 will display as 31.

Does that make sense to anyone?

I will eventually have another set of columns that will do the same thing for every month of the year. But hopefully I can figure that out on my own once I see the main example.

Help would be appreciated!

Sample.xlsx

**Richard Buttrey** · 08-21-2012, 03:02 PM

Hi,

Why not turn this around and in the first cell A7 enter
=DATE($B$2,$D$2,ROW()-6)
custom format it as "ddd" and copy it down 30 rows.

If required use conditional formatting to colour Sat & Sun with blue.

In B7:B39 enter the values 1-31.

Regards

**daddylonglegs** · 08-21-2012, 03:18 PM

You could use this formula in B7

=IF(MONTH(A$5-WEEKDAY(A$5)+ROWS(B$7:B7))<>D$2,"",DAY(A$5-WEEKDAY(A$5)+ROWS(B$7:B7)))

format B7 as general and copy down to B43

That will work for any month/year, so if you change D1/D2 it will update accordingly

**Sovren** · 08-21-2012, 04:19 PM

Richard, that was a marvelously simple solution. I didn't even think of doing it that way. For some reason my mind had it decided that it was a complex formula that needed to be executed.

daddylonglegs, thanks for your formula as well. This was exactly what I was thinking in my head.

Both solutions worked great! Thank you both for replying.

**Cutter** · 08-21-2012, 10:13 PM

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