Microsoft KB Archive/83101

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Excel: Finding the Date of the First or Last Day of the Week

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0
 * Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
 * Microsoft Excel for OS/2, versions 2.x and 3.0

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SUMMARY
In Microsoft Excel, you can use the following formulas to return the date of the first or last day of the week.

MORE INFORMATION
To find the date of the Sunday of the week containing a given date, use the following formula:

  =The_Date-WEEKDAY(The_Date)+1

You can modify the above formulas to find the date of any preceding or following day of the week by replacing the number 1 in the formula with a number corresponding to the day of the week you wish to find (2 for Monday, 3 for Tuesday, and so on).