The Excel WORKDAY function returns a date serial number that is the specified number of working days before or after the start date. Working days exclude weekends and any dates identified as holidays.
The WORKDAY function is handy when calculating due dates that exclude weekends (Saturday & Sunday) or holidays.
Excel WORKDAY Function Syntax
| Syntax: | =WORKDAY( start_date, days, [holidays]) |
| start_date | A date in a format Excel recognises known as the date-time serial number, or text |
| days | Number of non-weekend and non-holidays to add or subtract |
| [holidays] | Optional list of holidays to exclude |
Excel WORKDAY Function Examples
Note 1: only the date portion of a date-time serial number is used by WORKDAY. Any time element is ignored.
Note 2: only whole numbers are recognised by the 'days' argument. e.g. 1.7 days would be rounded down to 1 day.
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