Hi Bob

Many thanks - will give it a go.
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Mandy


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Here is a formula

=start_date+SIGN(num_days)*SMALL(IF((WEEKDAY(start _date+SIGN(num_days)*(ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&ABS(num_da ys)*10))))={2,3,5,6})*
ISNA(MATCH(start_date+SIGN(num_days)*(ROW(INDIRECT ("1:"&ABS(num_days)*10))),holidays,0)),ROW(INDIREC T("1:"&ABS(num_days)*10))),ABS(num_days))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.
Excel will automatically enclose the formula in braces (curly brackets), do
not try to do this manually.
When editing the formula, it must again be array-entered.

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HTH

Bob

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"mandy" wrote in message
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Superb - thanks for your help!
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Mandy


"loudfish" wrote:

On May 1, 5:40 pm, mandy wrote:
Thank you so much - knew there had to be an answer out there. Don't
suppose
you know of any easy way of telling it to ignore every wednesday, for
example? It'll take for ever to enter all the dates ....

cheers

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Mandy

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:19:02 -0700, mandy

wrote:

Does anyone know if I can take a date use the NETWORKDAYS function
to count
forward a specified number of days

for example If I were to take 1st March and count forward 10 network
days I
would get an answer of 14th March

If using NETWORKDAYS won't work does anyone know of anything else I
can use?

Sorry, been playing with this for ages trying to see if this could
work and
just can't seem to be able to do it!

Look at the WORKDAY function.
--ron

No, but here's a workaround:
=networkdays(A1,B1,C1:C100)

Put startdate in A1 enddate in B1, and list of days you want to ignore
in C1:C100.

To create a list of all wednesdays (for putting into C1:C100):
Start with a Wednesday in C1, using a calendar. e.g. 02/05/2007 (UK
date format).
In C2, use =C1+7.
Copy the formula down.

HTH

Andrew