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I need to have the name of the day of the month automatically fill in when I
enter in the date.

Ex: enter in 1/1/2009 in cell a2
In cell A1 Monday will automatically be filled in.

I guess this is a matching of the date to the name of the day of the month.

thanks.
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If in the same cell the right clickFormat cellsCustom type dddd

If in cell A1 then use the below formula
=TEXT(A2,"dddd")


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"ann" wrote:

I need to have the name of the day of the month automatically fill in when I
enter in the date.

Ex: enter in 1/1/2009 in cell a2
In cell A1 Monday will automatically be filled in.

I guess this is a matching of the date to the name of the day of the month.

thanks.

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formula in A1:
=A2
Format cell, custom:
dddd
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"ann" wrote:

I need to have the name of the day of the month automatically fill in when I
enter in the date.

Ex: enter in 1/1/2009 in cell a2
In cell A1 Monday will automatically be filled in.

I guess this is a matching of the date to the name of the day of the month.

thanks.

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