Weekday names and week numbers
Turn dates into day names with TEXT and day numbers with WEEKDAY, and number the weeks with WEEKNUM or ISOWEEKNUM.
In this lesson
=TEXT(date,"dddd")gives the day name (Monday) and"ddd"the short name (Mon).=WEEKDAY(date)gives 1 (Sunday) to 7 (Saturday).=WEEKNUM(date): weeks start on Sunday, and week 1 has January 1 in it.
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Where it sits in Dates and times
- How dates really work8 min
- Working days with NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY12 min
- Age from date of birth10 min
- Weekday names and week numbersThis lesson11 min
- Hours worked9 min
- Shifts that run past midnight9 min
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Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.
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