Excel Formula: Get Most Recent Day of Week
If there is a given date, how can you get the date of the most recent specific weekday based on the date in Excel? Here introduces a formula to quickly get it.
If you want to follow along with this tutorial, please download the example spreadsheet.
Generic formula:
| Date-MOD(date-weekday_number,7) |
Syntaxt and Arguments
| Date: the given date that is used to find the most recent day of week. |
| Week_number: the number indicates which weekday you want to get. Excel assigns 1 to Sunday and 7 to Saturday. For example, to get the most recent Monday, the weekday_number is 2. |
Return Value
The formula returns a 5-digit number. Since Excel stores dates as numbers, for getting a visual date, you can show the formula result in date format.
How this formula works
To get the most recent Thursday based on the date in cell B3, please use below formula:
| =B3-MOD(B3-5,7) |
Press Enter key.
Then go to Number Format list to choose Short Date or Long Date as you need in the Number group under Home tab.
Explanation
MOD function: returns the remainder of two numbers after division.
Remark
1 This formula gets the most recent weekday in past.
2 If you want to automatically get the most recent weekday from today, use below formula:
=TODAY()-MOD(TODAY()-weekday_number,7)
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Relative Functions
- Excel WEEKNUM Function
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