Biff & Ron,
Thanks very much indeed guys. All suggestions work perfectly!
I love Excel to pieces, and can only aspire to knowing as much about it as
you do....
Cheers, and Happy New Year
Lesley

"T. Valko" wrote:

Not sure what the "+" are for but it works without them:

=("01-"&A1)+MATCH(1,--(TEXT(("01-"&A1)+{0,1,2,3,4,5,6},"ddd")=LEFT(A2,3)),0)-1

Biff

"Ron Coderre" wrote in message
...
Try something like this:

With
A1: (a month name)
A2: (a day name)

A4:
=+("01-"&A1)+MATCH(1,--(TEXT(+("01-"&A1)+{0,1,2,3,4,5,6},"ddd")=LEFT(A2,3)),0)-1

A5: =A4+7
Copy that formula down as far as needed

Example:
A1: February
A2: Tuesday

A4: returns February 06, 2007

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"lesg46" wrote:

I need to return the correct date based on the day of week and month of
year.
e.g.
in A1 I type January
in A2 I type Monday

in A4 I want the result 1 Jan 2007
in A5 I want 8 Jan 2007
etc.
So that if I change either the month or day in A1 or A2, the results will
change automatically.
Please can anyone help? This is driving me mad!!
Thanks