Working days with NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY

Count the working days between two dates with NETWORKDAYS, find a date a number of working days away with WORKDAY, and skip your holidays.

Confident · 12 min · 12 steps

In this lesson

  • =NETWORKDAYS(start, end, holidays): the working days from start to end, both days counted.
  • =WORKDAY(start, days, holidays): the date that many working days after start, which isn't counted.
  • Holidays are a range of dates you keep yourself. Lock it before copying: Holidays!$B$2:$B$6.

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Skill
Dates and times
Stage
Confident

Where it sits in Dates and times 11 lessons

And 3 more, up to Quarters and fiscal years from a date. See the whole skill

The steps

12 steps: 4 explanations, 6 Do this, 2 questions, then Your turn.

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Remove duplicates

Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.

Confident · 9 min · Free, with no sign-up

Do the free lesson on your computer.

Send yourself the link and open it on a laptop or desktop.

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