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So I've come across an issue where excel is providing the wrong DAY when returning the DAY for September 1, 2015, excel continues to think this is a SUNDAY....
So a1 = 42242, a2 = 42243...
a8 = 42249.
b1 = day(A1) returns 26
b2 = day(A2) returns 27
b8 = day(A8) returns 2
So all good right!!!!
Until....
Format cells C1,C2...C8 as Custom DDDD
Then entering the following formulas into the C Columns...
c1 = day(A1) = Thursday
c2 = day(A2) = Friday
c8 = day(A8) = SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually a Tuesday....
42 thousand 242 days ago it was Jan 1 1900....
Did I miss a day LOL
Can anyone help me out with this...
Thanks
Richard
I'm using Office 2010 Professional...
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Answer accepted by question author
Don't you want to use the WEEKDAY function - not the DAY function? The DAY function returns a day of the month from 1 to 31. The WEEKDAY function returns the day of the week, a number of 1 to 7 and when formatted as DDD correctly shows September 1, 2015 as a Tuesday.
You may use Text function directly to A1 for a week day
=Text(A1,"DDD")
NICE! THANKS!
As their home support is closed at this time :(