Date Population

[Guest]

I looked through all the message threads before asking this question.
Hopefully, I didn't miss the answer if it has already been stated.

I have a timesheet. A1 is the "Pay Period Ending x/xx/xxx". I want it so
that when someone enters a date in A1, the date appears in the cells above
the cells labeled Sunday - Saturday. I have 3 weeks in the timesheet because
pay periods are by the date and not the day of the week. We want to make it
easy for the employees by having the date automatically populate by the pay
period date.

It should look like the following:

Pay Period Ending 5/20/06

5/7 5/8 5/9 5/10 5/11
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur etc.

In other words, whatever the date, the calculation will start with the
Sunday at least 2 weeks prior...

 

[Guest]

achapman -- this is kind of brute force and maybe someone will have something
more elegant. But here's one way, involving lookup tables.

First, on some place that won't show up on the timecard, create a little
table as follows. I'm putting it out at $Y$1:$Z$7, just as an example
Y Z
1 1 Monday
2 2 Tuesday
3 3 Wednesday
etc.

Then
A B
1 Pay Period Ending 5/20/06
2
3 =b1-15 =b1-14
4 =VLOOKUP(WEEKDAY(A3),$Y$1:$Z$7,2)

tried it. think it works.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Cell A1 has your Pay Ending Date

In cell A3 create the formula: =A1-14
In cell B3 create the formula: =A1-13
In cell B4 create the formula: =A1-12
and so on

In cell A4 create the formula: =TEXT(A3,"ddd")
In cell B4 create the formula: =TEXT(B3,"ddd")
In cell C4 create the formula: =TEXT(C3,"ddd")
and so on

 

[Guest]

OK -- thought of a more elegant way on the drive home. Instead of the
VLOOKUP formula in B4, use:

=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B3),"Sunday","Monday","Tuesday", etc.)

Tried it. Works good.

HTH

 

[Guest]

I think this does it. I don't see a way to keep the Sunday - Saturday
rotation look consistent through the spreadsheet. She wanted just the date
to be changed, but this should work. Thanks so much!

 

[Guest]

Well, she does want to keep the Sunday through Saturday lineup. In other
words, the dates will always start with the Sunday about 2 weeks prior to the
pay period, just like below:

5/7 5/8 5/9 5/14 5/15 5/16
Sun Mon Tues.... Sun Mon Tues...

So that only the date changes, not the days of the week. Is this even
possible?

 

[Reid_at_work]

so, how do you calculate the end of the pay period?

Is it open-ended? Or a specific date?

On a timesheet I once used, the Pay-Period end date was calculated off the last date in the pay-week; however, that was a fixed day of the week, e.g. Friday.

Let me know, I think I have a solution.

Reid