firstly i dont have analysis toolpack which is probably why it didnt work and
even if i knew where to get it from we arent allowed to install new software
at our work and the customer wont want to install new software just to read
there reports. is there any other way round this problem?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:


In your workbook, use the formula that I gave and in the first row, change
onsite_date to A2, return_date to B2.

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HTH

RP
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"Stuart" wrote in message
...
i dont fully understand go to
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stuartb...e/Downtime.xls make the
needed adjustments and send modified file to
as this will be easier that way ill be
able
to see what you did. would you guys mind?

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

You don't need a macro for this, a simple formula will work


=IF(onsite_date="","",IF(return_date="",NETWORKDAY S(onsite_date,TODAY()),NET
WORKDAYS(onsite_date,return_date)))

it uses NETWEORKDAYS which is part of the Analysis Toolpak, so that
needs to
be installed.

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HTH

RP
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"Stuart" wrote in message
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I work for a company in Hertford now. We are an accident management
company
as part of our services we provide our fleet customers with weekly,
biweekly,
monthly or even daily reports. one of the pieces of information in
these
reports is the downtime which is how long the vehicle has been in the
bodyshop. I have attached an working example to this to this email it
uses
an
excel formulae to calculate the difference between the 2 dates. now
then
what
I want to know from you is how to improve on this formulae.

I need it to not only work out the difference between the 2 dates but
if a
onsit date is given but no returned date it will show how many days
its
been
from onsite date to today's date. also if returned date is given but
no
onsite date it should return a blank value as our customers don't want
to
see
"#VALUE" show up anywhere. lastly this formulae is limited in that our
bodyshop's do not work on weekends yet the current formulae can't
compensate
for weekends is the any way to get the formulae to filter out weekends
when
doing its calculations?

any help you can provide me with would be greatly appreciated. thanks
in
advance.