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i have a formula that returns the day of a inoutted date.

=TEXT(f1,"dddd")

it works fine except for it will return a "saturday" if the cell is blank.
How can i adapt it to ignore the blank cell?

Many thanks
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=IF(ISBLANK(F1),"",TEXT(F1,"dddd"))

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i have a formula that returns the day of a inoutted date.

=TEXT(f1,"dddd")

it works fine except for it will return a "saturday" if the cell is blank.
How can i adapt it to ignore the blank cell?

Many thanks



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=IF(WEEKDAY(F1)=7,"",TEXT(F1,"dddd"))
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i have a formula that returns the day of a inoutted date.

=TEXT(f1,"dddd")

it works fine except for it will return a "saturday" if the cell is blank.
How can i adapt it to ignore the blank cell?

Many thanks

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