formula to return what day of the week a date is?

Eddie Abasta

in Excel this would be the formula

=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(A1),"Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat")

Does not work in SS?

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Andrée Starå

Hi @Eddie Abasta

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=
IFERROR(IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 1, "Sunday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 2, "Monday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 3, "Tuesday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 4, "Wednesday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 5, "Thursday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 6, "Friday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 7, "Saturday"))))))), "")

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Eddie Abasta

Good morning Mr. Starå,

Thank you for your help. This is a very clever way of accomplishing this result. Very nice way to nest different formulas.

Thanks for your help, I pray you stay Safe and have an awesome week!

Eddie Abasta

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Andrée Starå

Hi @Eddie Abasta

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=
IFERROR(IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 1, "Sunday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 2, "Monday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 3, "Tuesday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 4, "Wednesday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 5, "Thursday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 6, "Friday", 
IF(WEEKDAY(Date@row) = 7, "Saturday"))))))), "")

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

Eddie Abasta

Good morning Mr. Starå,

Thank you for your help. This is a very clever way of accomplishing this result. Very nice way to nest different formulas.

Thanks for your help, I pray you stay Safe and have an awesome week!

Eddie Abasta

Andrée Starå

@Eddie Abasta

Excellent!

You're more than welcome & thanks for the kind words!

Kiki_7308

It might be easier to just show the day of the week using the format option...

Kathryn Williams

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chingls

If you only need the first 3 letters of the days of the week, this formula should work:

=MID("SunMonTueWedThuFriSatSun",(WEEKDAY([Modifieddate]@row ) * 3 -2), 3)

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