Excel: Finding the Date of the First or Last Day of the Week

ID: Q83101

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
Microsoft Excel for OS/2, versions 2.x and 3.0

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, you can use the following formulas to return the date of the first or last day of the week.

MORE INFORMATION

To find the date of the Sunday of the week containing a given date, use the following formula:


   =The_Date-WEEKDAY(The_Date)+1

You can modify the above formulas to find the date of any preceding or following day of the week by replacing the number 1 in the formula with a number corresponding to the day of the week you wish to find (2 for Monday, 3 for Tuesday, and so on).

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Excel Function Reference," for Windows, version 3.0, 251-252

Additional query words: 2.00 2.01 2.1 2.10 2.2 2.20 2.21 3.0


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Last Reviewed: March 24, 1999