If you use 3 d's, then the abbreviated day name is returned. You can do the
same thing (using 3 and 4 m's) to return the month name (abbreviated and
full). It looks like 5 m's will return the first letter of the month name (5
d's doesn't do this).

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Neptune Dinosaur" wrote in message
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Gee, that's neat. Wish I'd discovered that 10 years ago. Every time you
start to think you've become an "Advnced User", something like this comes
along to cut you down to size ....
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Time is just the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once


"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

You can use the TEXT function to return the day name directly (and
without
the need for the Analysis ToolPak)...

=TEXT(B7,"dddd")

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Neptune Dinosaur" wrote in message
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G'day

This is not too hard to do once you know. The WEEKDAY function will
give
you a number that returns the day of the week e.g. "=WEEKDAY(B7)"

This actually gives you an integer in the range 1 to 7 (1 for Sunday, 5
for
Thursday etc etc). You can then use a VLOOKUP to link the integers to
the
names of the days via a little table that you create in another part of
the
sheet or file.

If you find that your Excel environment doesn't recognise WEEKDAY, you
will
need to go to Tools --- AddIns and turn on the one called "Analysis
Tool
Pack" (then close the file and reopen it).
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"retired bill" wrote:

I figured out how to add a calendar control to my excel spreadsheet.
For example, when I click in cell B7, the calendar appears, I click on
a
November 11, the date of 11/11/08 gets entered into cell B7, and the
calendar
disappears. This works Fine. However, what I would like to be able
to
set
up
is when the person clicks on November 11, the date of November gets
entered
into cell B7 AND the corresponding weekday (in this case, Tuesday)
gets
automatically entered into the cell next to it, C7.
i.e. cell B7 returns the DATE
cell C7 retunrs the DAY of week
The calendar control is in column B - Range B7:B56