Excel Weekday Function

Excel 2016 Weekday Function. In this video, you will learn how to make use of weekday function. Weekday function is used to find the day of a particular date. This function can be used in a variety of ways when tracking the day for the date. While dealing with sales data, analytics data, research data building an attendance sheet oh working with order sheets you will find this function very handy.

The function uses two parameters, first one is mandate which is a serial number needs to be a date. If you pass a string or a text value in this position it may not work as desired. The second parameter is the return type. This will help you to decide when to start your weekday using return type number values. This one is an optional parameter, and hence, if you do not provide anything by default it will start the weekday from Sunday and goes through Saturday.

Microsoft Website Link for Weekday reference: http://bit.ly/2BHo8Dk

This video will also demonstrate IsText and IsNumber functions briefly. Don’t worry about these functions at this time, they will be discussed in more detail and thoroughly explained in the upcoming lessons.

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By the end of this video, you should be able to use weekday function thoroughly in your Excel projects. In case you get stuck, write your questions below in the comments section and I will be happy to help you.

Excel Learning Series – TOC

1. Excel 2016 – Basics – Find Sum, Average, Min and Max
2. Excel 2016 Difference Between Formulas and Functions
3. Excel 2016 Copy Formulas or Functions
4. Microsoft Excel Auto Fill
5. Excel 2016 Manage Views using Freeze Panes
6. Microsoft Excel – Saving Workbooks
7. Excel Upper and Lower Text Functions
8. Excel 2016 – Text Function – Proper
9. Excel Text Functions – Trim Function
10. Excel – Text Function Left Function
11. Excel Text Function – Right Function
12. Excel Text Functions – MID Function
13. Excel Concatenate Text Function
14. Excel Nested Functions
15. Excel Search Function
16. Excel – Calculate Age using Date Function Today
17. Calculate Tenure in Excel with Days Function
18. Autofill Dates in Excel
19. Formatting Dates in Excel
20. Excel Date Format Shortcut
21. Calculating Sum of Time in Excel
22. Calculate Expiry Date in Excel 2016 – EDATE
23. Find Age or Tenure using DATEDIF in Excel 2016
24. RandBetween – Generate Random Dates in Excel 2016
25. Excel Weekday Function
26. Excel WeekNum and ISOWeekNum Functions
27. Excel Networkdays and Excel Networkdays.INTL
28. Excel Workday and Workdays INTL Functions
29. Excel DATEVALUE AND TIMEVALUE
30. Calculate Time Difference in Excel
31. Calculate Quarter in Excel
32. Rounding Day, Hour and Minutes in Excel
33. Excel Pay Rate and Downtime Cost Calculation
34. Excel Logical Functions IF, AND, OR
35. Calculate Bonus in Excel Using IF Function
36. Excel Learning – SumIF and SumIFS
37. How to use Excel Count Functions
38. How to use VLOOKUP in Excel
39. How to vLookup in a different workbook in Excel
40. VLookup for Multiple Sheets with Example
41. Excel Custom Quarters
42. Vlookup Return Custom Value

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