Have a look at the WEEKDAY function in Help,
Regards,
Alan.
"bmo" wrote in message
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is there a formula where I can assign a number to the day of the week.

for instance; if I input "wednesday" can it return "3"?

I want to go a step beyond that and have it return columns "3,14,31 & 54"
but that is detail minor.

Thanks,
Blake