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Excel Formula: Custom Format Weekday Name

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Generally, the weekday displays as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday…Sunday. But sometimes, you may want to customize the weekday names, such as Mony, Tuey, Wedy…Suny. In this tutorial, it provides a formula to automatically customize the weekday names based on the date in Excel.

If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
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Generic formula:

CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(date),"Suny","Mony","Tuey","Wedy","Thuy","Friy","Saty")

Syntaxt and Arguments

Date:the date that you want to return a weekday name in custom format.

How this formula works

To convert the date in cell B3 to a weekday name in custom format, please use below formula:

=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B3),"Suny","Mony","Tuey","Wedy","Thuy","Friy","Saty")

Press Enter key to get the result, if you need, drag auto fill handle over the cells to apply the formula.
doc convert date to julia 1

doc convert date to julia 1

Explanation

WEEKDAY function: to get day of the week as a number (1 to 7) from date.

Weekday Number
Sunday 1
Monday 2
Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4
Thursday 5
Friday 6
Saturday 7

WEEKDAY(B3) returns 3.

CHOOSE function: returns a value from the list of value arguments by the given index number.

Then formula

=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B4),"Suny","Mony","Tuey","Wedy","Thuy","Friy","Saty")
=CHOOSE(3,"Suny","Mony","Tuey","Wedy","Thuy","Friy","Saty")
=Tuey (to return the third value from the list)


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