Using the Work Day Formula to Calculate Due Date

Mad4Accounting

Hi All,

I am trying to generate a formula that will calculate a due date (MM/DD/YYYY) based on working days of the month. My problem is that our team uses WD1, WD2, WD3, etc, to denote a due date, not dates in a date format. For example, WD1 in November would be 11/1/2024 and WD2 would be 11/4/2024. Does anyone have ideas on how I can achieve this? It would save our team a lot of time if these dates were automated each month. Thank you!!

SSFeatures

Hi @Mad4Accounting,

This formula will work for you:

=WORKDAY(DATE(2024, 11, 1), VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(WD@row, "WD", "")) - 1)

• WORKDAY lets us get the date of a workday.
• DATE(2024, 11, 1) tells the function to start calculating the workdays from November 1st.
• SUBSTITUTE removes the "WD" from "WD1" so that we're left with "1".
• VALUE converts "1" into the number 1.
• We need to subtract 1 from VALUE so that the first workday is considered November 1st rather than November 4th.

Hope this helps!