Excel Formula: Check If Date Is Workday

In Excel, to check a date if is a workday (excluding general weekends and holidays), you can use the WORKDAY function.

If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.

Generic formula:

Syntaxt and Arguments

반환 값

This formula returns to a logical value, TRUE or FALEs. When the formula returns to TRUE, the date is a workday, otherwise, the date is not a workday when the formula returns to FALSE.

How this formula works

In cells E3:E7 list the holidays, now to check the dates in list B3:B7 if are workdays, please use below formula:

Press Enterkey to get the first checking result, and then drag the autofill handle down to cell B7.

Explanation

WORKDAYfunction： is used to add a specified number of workdays to a 시작일 and return the future or past date in a serial number format。

=WORKDAY(B3-1,1,$E$3:$E$7)
=WORKDAY(「4/11/2020」,1, $E$3:$E$7)
=4/13/2020

Then

=4/13/2020=B3
=4/13/2020=/12/2020
=FALSE

Note

With the WORKDAY function, in recons the weekends are Saturday and Sunday, if you have your own custom weekend, you can use the WORKDAY.INTLfunction.

Supposing the weekends are Monday and Tuesday, please use the formula as:

=WORKDAY.INTL(B3-1,1,3,$E$3:$E$7)=B3

Weekend number

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Relative Functions

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  DAY function gets the day as a number (1 to 31) from a date
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  Get the current time and date