This post will guide you how to count days of week in the range of dates using a formula in Excel 2013/2016 or Excel office 365. How do I count dates by day of week in Excel.
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Count Dates by Day of Week Through Formula
Sometimes, you may be want to count days of week in a given date range or between two dates. And you need to build a complex formula to work with your data. To count dates by weekday(such as: Mondays, Tuesdays, etc), and you can use the SUMPRODUCT function in combination with the WEEKDAY function to create a formula in Excel.
For example, your date range is B1:B6, and you want to count dates by weekday, just using the following formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(–(WEEKDAY($B$1:$B$6)=D1))
LETS SEE THAT HOW THIS FORMULA WORKS:
=WEEKDAY(B1：B6)
The formula WEEKDAY returns a number between 1 and 7 based on a particular day of the week. Such as: Sunday is 1, Monday is 2, Thuesday is 3, Wednesday is 4, Thursday is 5, Friday is 6 and Saturday is 7.
This formula returns an array like this:
{1;4;5;6;2;4}
=WEEKDAY($B$1:$B$6)=1
Then the numbers returned by WEEKDAY formula are compared to the given day value of weekday, returns another array result like this:
{TRUE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE;FALSE}
=–(WEEKDAY($B$1:$B$6)=1)
You still need to convert the TRUE or FALSE values to 1 and 0 values using the double negative operator. And returns the below array result:
{1;0;0;0;0;0}
The SUMPRODUCT function just sums all values of an array.
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