Add a Column to Show Month or Weekday

June 21, 2022 - by Bill Jelen

Problem: I want to analyze sales by weekday. Can I calculate the weekday from a date?

Strategy: Use the TEXT function. The first argument for this function is a cell containing a date. The second argument is any custom number format in quotes. =TEXT(A2,”DDDD”) will give you a weekday. =TEXT(A2,”MMM”) will give you the month abbreviation.

To get the weekday name from a date, use =TEXT(A2,"DDDD") — Figure 529. Convert dates to weekdays.

Note that unlike applying a date format, the TEXT function actually converts the date to text. You can sort by column B and all of the Mondays will sort together.

This article is an excerpt from Power Excel With MrExcel

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