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    Matching date with days

    Is there any formula to match dates with the days in excel.
    e.g if my date is 25-jan-12 on cell A1 and i wish to return the day of the week on cell B1, what formula can be used?

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    Re: Matching date with days

    Depends what you mean by day of the week. There is a WEEKDAY function, or, if you just mean Monday, Tuesday, etc, you could use formatting on a copy of the cell.


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    Re: Matching date with days

    How about this:

    =TEXT(WEEKDAY(A1),"dddd")

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    Re: Matching date with days

    @Moo: that would probably DAY not WEEKDAY but, if it's just for display, you can do that with formatting.


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    Re: Matching date with days

    It worked perfectly guys! thanks alot

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    Re: Matching date with days

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    Re: Matching date with days

    Just to clarify some of the options:

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    WEEKDAY is the day of the week. It has a second parameter which determines which day you start counting with;

    1 or omitted Numbers 1 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday). Behaves like previous versions of Microsoft Excel.
    2 Numbers 1 (Monday) through 7 (Sunday).
    3 Numbers 0 (Monday) through 6 (Sunday).


    I probably confused the issue when I replied to Moo as using TEXT would require the second parameter to be "00" not "dd".


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    Re: Matching date with days

    Thanks, Trevor. Appreciate the clarification.
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    Re: Matching date with days

    @Moo: You're welcome. Thanks for the rep.

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    Re: Matching date with days

    @TMS Thanks for a detail u sent me for the thread. I'm trying to apply it. i hope i succeed

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    You're welcome. Thanks for the rep.

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