This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?

=IF(AND(WEEKDAY(A1)=5,ISNUMBER(MATCH(A1,B1:B4,0))) ,"something","something
else")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?

Michael,

If you need an exact match:

=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(A1,B1:B4,FALSE)),"a something","something else")

If you need it within the range defined by the dates in B1:B4

=IF(AND(A1=MIN(B1:B4),A1<=MAX(B1:B4)),"something else","a something")

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


wrote in message
oups.com...
This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?

Try one of these:

=IF(AND(TEXT(A1,"DDD")="THU",COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"U se this","otherwise this")
or
=IF(AND(WEEKDAY(N(A1))=5,COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"Use this","otherwise this")

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


" wrote:

This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?

That did it! I tried the other two, but couldn't get them to work.
This one was awesome. Thanks a lot for your help...

Ron Coderre wrote:
Try one of these:

=IF(AND(TEXT(A1,"DDD")="THU",COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"U se this","otherwise this")
or
=IF(AND(WEEKDAY(N(A1))=5,COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"Use this","otherwise this")

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


" wrote:

This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?

Thanks for the feedback....I'm glad that worked for you.

***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


" wrote:

That did it! I tried the other two, but couldn't get them to work.
This one was awesome. Thanks a lot for your help...

Ron Coderre wrote:
Try one of these:

=IF(AND(TEXT(A1,"DDD")="THU",COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"U se this","otherwise this")
or
=IF(AND(WEEKDAY(N(A1))=5,COUNTIF(B1:B4,A1)),"Use this","otherwise this")

Does that help?
***********
Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


" wrote:

This should be easy, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. I
have one cell that has a date (a1) in it. I want to verify that date
against a range of dates (b1:b4) (it needs to be in that range) that I
have in a column, while using an if/and statement. The statement I
want to use is something to the effect of (in words): if a1 is a
thursday and is in the range b1:b4, give me a something, otherwise give
me something else. Am I making this harder than it should be?