I need help with a simple formula to calculate the difference between days.
So I have 3 columns, the first two show day abbreviations as MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN and the third one gives you the difference between a day in column two vs column one.
Example: Col 1: MON, Col 2: THU, Col 3: 3 (as THU - MON so 4 - 1 = 3)
I made a little table on the side to tell excel that MON = 1, TUE = 2 etc. and am using vlookups to deduct the first value from the second, absolute values.
However, it's not working in case column 1 shows a "higher" day than column 2, I used absolute values to overcome this, but it does not work how I wanted.
And if I have Col 1: WED, COL 2: TUE, Col 3 shows 1, but it should be 7... (THU, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, WED)
In short: I need to calculate the actual number of days passed between two weekdays, without specific dates attached.
Is it something possible to achieve using a formula?
So I have 3 columns, the first two show day abbreviations as MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN and the third one gives you the difference between a day in column two vs column one.
Example: Col 1: MON, Col 2: THU, Col 3: 3 (as THU - MON so 4 - 1 = 3)
I made a little table on the side to tell excel that MON = 1, TUE = 2 etc. and am using vlookups to deduct the first value from the second, absolute values.
However, it's not working in case column 1 shows a "higher" day than column 2, I used absolute values to overcome this, but it does not work how I wanted.
And if I have Col 1: WED, COL 2: TUE, Col 3 shows 1, but it should be 7... (THU, FRI, SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, WED)
In short: I need to calculate the actual number of days passed between two weekdays, without specific dates attached.
Is it something possible to achieve using a formula?