assigning # to day

[Guest]

is there a formula where I can assign a number to the day of the week.

for instance; if I input "wednesday" can it return "3"?

I want to go a step beyond that and have it return columns "3,14,31 & 54"
but that is detail minor.

Thanks,
Blake

 

[Alan]

Have a look at the WEEKDAY function in Help,
Regards,
Alan.

 

[Bob Phillips]

=MATCH(A1,{"Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday"},0)

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Alan]

Sorry, misread the question,
Apologies,
Alan.

Have a look at the WEEKDAY function in Help,
Regards,
Alan.