How to Use the Excel WORKDAY Function to Calculate Workdays and Exclude Holidays
Learn how to use Excel's WORKDAY function to calculate dates by adding workdays while excluding weekends and holidays.
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The WORKDAY function in Excel helps calculate a date by adding a specific number of workdays to a start date, excluding weekends and specified holidays. Use the syntax `WORKDAY(start_date, days, [holidays])`. For example, `WORKDAY('2023-10-01', 10, { '2023-10-05', '2023-10-06' })` returns a date 10 workdays after October 1, 2023, excluding October 5 and 6 as holidays.**
FAQs & Answers
- What does the WORKDAY function in Excel do? The WORKDAY function calculates a date by adding a specified number of workdays to a start date, automatically excluding weekends and any provided holidays.
- How do you exclude holidays in the Excel WORKDAY function? You can exclude holidays by providing a list or range of holiday dates as the third argument in the WORKDAY function, so those days are not counted as workdays.
- Can the WORKDAY function handle negative numbers? Yes, the WORKDAY function can take negative numbers in the days argument to calculate a previous workday before the start date.