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Archives for July 2016

Formula to calculate the next Friday after today
I have the formula below in Excel that calculates the next friday from today's date; so that any time the sheet is opened before a friday it will automatically insert the date for the coming friday, and when that date has passed and the sheet is re opened it will automatically insert the next fridays date in the week…

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Record a date automation isn't working
I set up the automation below, and it's not working. When I change the status of a row to complete, nothing happens. If I go into the automation manager and select "run" or "test" the completion date column fills in with today's date. What am I doing wrong? This should be straight-forward. I've tried building this…
Identifying oldest entry on sheet, for different groups
Hello! I am working on a "waitlist" process, where the sheet will have multiple candidates under each work location. I need a formula to identify the oldest entry for each location, and if there are multiple entries for the earliest date, use a "score" column identify the higher score as the next candidate in line. Example…
Week Over Week Change
I have a sheet that has orders entries from the last 6 months. This sheet continues to populate as more orders are made. This is just my repository sheet. I am looking to get the week over week change metrics for the last 7 days. Here's the formula that can provide me that week over week change: Week over week %% =…