work day
What Does It Do?
Use this function to calculate a past or future date based on a starting date and a
specified number of days. The function excludes weekends and holidays and can
therefore be used to calculate delivery dates or invoice dates.
Syntax
=WORKDAY(StartDate,Days,Holidays)
Formatting
The result will normally be shown as a number which can be formatted to a
normal date by using Format,Cells,Number,Date.
| StartDate | Days | Result | |
| 1-Jan-98 | 28 | 35836 | =WORKDAY(D4,E4) |
| 1-Jan-98 | 28 | 10-Feb-98 | =WORKDAY(D5,E5) |
Example:
The following example shows how the function can be used to calculate delivery dates
based upon an initial Order Date and estimated Delivery Days.
| Order Date | Delivery Days | Delivery Date |
| Mon 02-Feb-98 | 2 | Wed 04-Feb-98 |
| Tue 15-Dec-98 | 28 | Tue 26-Jan-99 |
| =WORKDAY(D25,E25,D28:D32) |
| Holidays | ||
| Bank Holiday | Fri 01-May-98 | |
| Xmas | Fri 25-Dec-98 | |
| New Year | Wed 01-Jan-97 | |
| New Year | Thu 01-Jan-98 | |
| New Year | Fri 01-Jan-99 |