Yes, the weekend is over, but another one is just five days away! To make it easier to keep track of Saturdays and Sundays, you can use conditional formatting to highlight weekend dates in Excel.
In this example, the Excel file has a list of product sales for the first half of July. We’d like to highlight the dates and sales numbers that fall on a weekend.
Add Conditional Formatting
To highlight the weekend sales:
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- Select all the cells where conditional formatting should be applied, cells H2:J16 in this example. Cell H2 is the active cell in the selection.
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- On the Ribbon, click the Home tab, then click Conditional Formatting.
- Click New Rule, to open the New Formatting Rule dialog box
- In the Select a Rule Type list, click Use a formula to determine which cells to format.
- In the Formula box, enter a formula to check the weekday of the date in row 2, which is the active row on the worksheet:
=WEEKDAY($H2,2)>5
- Click the Format button, and select a Fill colour, or other formatting options, then click OK.
- Click OK to close the New Formatting Rule dialog box.
The weekend rows are highlighted in green.
The WEEKDAY Function
The WEEKDAY function checks the date in column H, and returns a weekday number, based on a numbering system (2) that starts with Monday as 1. Saturday is 6 and Sunday is 7, so we want to highlight weekday numbers that are greater than 5.
Instead of that numbering system, we could have entered 1 or 3 as the second argument (return_type) in the WEEKDAY function.
If we entered a 1, or omitted the second argument, the numbering would start with Sunday as 1. With a 3, Monday would start as 0, and end with a 6 on Sunday.
I used the 2 because that groups Saturday and Sunday at the end of the numbering, and we can simply test for >5.
More About Conditional Formatting
On the Contextures website there are basic instructions for conditional formatting, and other examples of ways you can use it.
Watch the Video
Here’s a short video that shows the steps in Excel 2007.
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Finally I found someone who could do it!!!!!!! Many thanks
Hi how do i identify weekends if the return_type is three(3)thus monday = 0…….should the function be =Weekday($A1,3)>4
it depends on the Return_type
following Number returned option are available in excel
Choose as you need and you can highlight any day as you want no restricted to weekday
1 or omitted Numbers 1 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday). Behaves like previous versions of Microsoft Excel.
2 Numbers 1 (Monday) through 7 (Sunday).
3 Numbers 0 (Monday) through 6 (Sunday).
11 Numbers 1 (Monday) through 7 (Sunday).
12 Numbers 1 (Tuesday) through 7 (Monday).
13 Numbers 1 (Wednesday) through 7 (Tuesday).
14 Numbers 1 (Thursday) through 7 (Wednesday).
15 Numbers 1 (Friday) through 7 (Thursday).
16 Numbers 1 (Saturday) through 7 (Friday).
17 Numbers 1 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday).
Hello,
how is is possible to colore 1 week end /3 since 14 march 2015 please ?
i found this but it make a mistake:
=AND(WEEKDAY($A5,2)>5,MOD((INT(MOD(INT(($A5-2)/7)+3/5,52+5/28))+1)/3,1)=0)
Excel 2007AB2sam/14/03/2015FAUXFeuil1Worksheet FormulasCellFormulaB2=AND(WEEKDAY($A2,2)>5,MOD((INT(MOD(INT(($A2-2)/7)+3/5,52+5/28))+1)/3,1)=0)
hOW TO CHANGE WEEKENDS TO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
it depends on the Return_type
following Number returned option are available in excel
Choose as you need and you can highlight any day as you want no restricted to weekday
1 or omitted Numbers 1 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday). Behaves like previous versions of Microsoft Excel.
2 Numbers 1 (Monday) through 7 (Sunday).
3 Numbers 0 (Monday) through 6 (Sunday).
11 Numbers 1 (Monday) through 7 (Sunday).
12 Numbers 1 (Tuesday) through 7 (Monday).
13 Numbers 1 (Wednesday) through 7 (Tuesday).
14 Numbers 1 (Thursday) through 7 (Wednesday).
15 Numbers 1 (Friday) through 7 (Thursday).
16 Numbers 1 (Saturday) through 7 (Friday).
17 Numbers 1 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday).
I tried the Add Conditional Formatting to highlight just the weekends and it id not work. the entire column was highlighted.
i see you may might have missed or misplaced $
Check my response below
Just in case dates are in columns than rows and you want to highlight weekends and its corresponding rows
=WEEKDAY(H$2,2)>5 – Observe the “$” placed in Column position
Task/Date 1-Oct, Sun 2-Oct, Mon 3-Oct, Tue ….
Task 1 12 8 10
Task 2 12 8 10
Task 3 12 8 10
here the Oct-1, Sun row will be colored i grey out Sat/Sun
changing criteria you can get what ever day to be highlighted as required