NETWORK Calculation

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Thu 15 Jun 2023, 18:25 Delegate Kay said...

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NETWORK Calculation

Hi All,

Please can you help to point me to the right direction for the following;

Column A3 = Start Date

(IF(ISBLANK(A3),"N/A",TODAY()-A3)),"N/A")

Instead of TODAY()-A3), I would like to return a result for number of working days between the start date and today.

Is it possible to amend the above calculation to return working days?

Many Thanks

Fri 16 Jun 2023, 09:14 Trainer Jens said...

RE: NETWORK Calculation

Hi Kay,

Thank you for the forum question.

=NETWORKDAYS(start_date, end_date, [holidays])

The Networkdays function counts 5 days a week Mon to Fri and also count bank holidays as working days, so you will need to have a list with the dates of the bank holidays (the [holidays] argument in the function), if you do not want bank holidays counted as working days.

=IF(ISBLANK(A3),"N/A",NETWORKDAYS(A3,TODAY())-1)

It is not a good idea to have the =TODAY() repeated many times. This can make the file very slow. A better solution is to have the function in a cell and then reference the cell in the NETWORKDAYS function.

Kind regards

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Mon 19 Jun 2023, 09:14 Delegate Kay said...

RE: NETWORK Calculation

Hi Jen,

Great to hear back from you, thanks so much.

Please can I check the reason for having to add -1 at the end of the suggested formula?

thanks

Tue 20 Jun 2023, 10:49 Trainer Jens said...

Tue 27 Jun 2023: Automatically marked as resolved.

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