Hello Excellers and welcome to another #formulafriday blog post. Today let’s take a look at using conditional formatting along with an Excel formula to highlight dates in our data set that fall on a weekend.
As part of understanding data trends in your analysis, you may need to know what dates in your data fall at the weekend. You may be looking at website traffic and the volumes of traffic, and as a result, this may be very different on the weekends. It would be useful to visually see these dates highlighted in my example below. Weekends are highlighted in green.
- Select the data cells which are to be your target range. In this example, it is A3:A12
- Home Tab | Styles Group | Conditional Formatting
- New Rule | Use a formula to determine which cells to format
- In the formula input box enter the formula below
WEEKDAY Explained
Serial_number Required. A sequential number that represents the date of the day you are trying to find.Return_type Optional. A number that determines the type of return value. The options are below. If this is omitted then the value 1 is used.
Finally, to finish off the formatting select the Format Cells dialog box where all of the formatting options are available. In this example, I have chosen to fill the cells green if the formula evaluates as TRUE. That’s it, a simple way to highlight weekend dates in your Excel data set.
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