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Default click on calendar control calendar but want to return the DAY

Use the UPPER function...

=IF(B7="","",UPPER(TEXT(B7,"ddd")))

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"retired bill" wrote in message
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Gord, thanks for your reply, will give it a try. The reason I posted on a
new thread is because I am new to this, and was not sure anyone could OR
would go back the original thread to check a later response I posted.
thanks

New Question: I am using the "ddd" setup in the formula and would like
for
the three letter day of the week to appear in ALL capitals if possible. I
have tried changing the "ddd" to "DDD", but this did not work. Any help
here
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

=IF(B7="","",TEXT(B7,"dddd"))

Copy down.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:16:06 -0700, retired bill
wrote:

Rick, thanks for your answer. This is a very simple answer to this
question,
however, when I insert the formula, then copy and paste for the range in
the
column, it displays the SAME day of the week for the entire column,
until I
use the calendar control and actually click on a date I have picked. I
would
like to have the cell return a BLANK, until I use the calendar control
and
click on a date, then enter the correct DAY of the week in the cell.

Thanks for your time, Bill

"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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Time is just the thing that keeps everything from happening all at
once


"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