Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

Look he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeWS.htm#NthDoWYear

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"thomas donino" wrote in message
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Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

Assuming A1 contains a date with the correct year and month, use this
formula instead

=DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),22)-WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),2))

The generic version of this formula was posted originally by Peo Sjoblom and
is as follows....

=DATE(Yr,MM,1+7*Nth)-WEEKDAY(DATE(Yr,MM,8-DoW))

where nth is the number you want 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc thus in my formula 7*3
since you wanted the 3rd Monday and where DoW stands for day of the week
with Sunday starting with 1 and so on and where I put 2 for Monday. If you
want the 2nd Saturday in the month of A1 it would look like

=DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),1+7*2)-WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),8-7))

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"thomas donino" wrote in message
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Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

With a date in cell A1 (to pick the year and month) the below formula will do.

=DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),1+7*3)-WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1),8-6))
(format the formula cell to date format)


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Jacob Skaria


"thomas donino" wrote:

Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

Wow, great resource, thank you

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Look he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeWS.htm#NthDoWYear

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"thomas donino" wrote in message
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Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:14:02 -0700, thomas donino
wrote:

Is there a function that will return, for example, the third friday of the
month? Or does one need to create it in vba?
Thank you

Given a date in A1 in the appropriate year and month, then:

=A1-DAY(A1)+22-WEEKDAY(A1-DAY(A1)+2)

will return the third Friday of that month
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