Extracting abbreviated days, converting to full word

[Guest]

The following type of data are listed in a column of cells:
Mon 1:30 (4:30)
Mon 10 (1)
Thurs 2 (5)

I need to get the day into another cell and converted to a full day name:
Mon = Monday

My simple extration formulas aren't working since the abbreviated days very
from 3-4 character spaces.

 

[Bob Phillips]

=left(A1,find(" ",a1)-1)&"day"

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HTH

Bob

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

 

[Fred Smith]

In your extraction formulas, rather than using the entire cell (ie, 'Thurs'),
use Left(cell,3). That way, you'll always be using the standard 3-letter day
abbreviation.

 

[Guest]

One play ..

Assuming source data as posted is in A1 down

Put in B1, array-enter* to confirm the formula:
=INDEX({"Monday";"Tuesday";"Wednesday";"Thursday";"Friday";"Saturday";"Sunday"},MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"Mon";"Tue";"Wed";"Thu";"Fri";"Sat";"Sun"},A1)),0))
Copy down as far as required. Col B should return the required results:
Monday, Thursday, etc

*Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

 

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Assuming your data starts in A1 (change to suit), use this...

=TEXT(MATCH(LEFT(A1,2),{"Su","Mo","Tu","We","Th","Fr","Sa"},0),"dddd")

and copy down as far as necessary.

Rick