Excel - How To Highlighting A Whole Column Based on Current Week - excel

I have an Excel doc that breaks down various tasks based on the weeks commenced:
I'm trying to highlight the whole column depending on the week we're sitting on (based on the start of the week being a Monday), so that whoever opens the document, whenever, can see clearly straight away what is due to be carried out in that week.
If I focus on the current day then I can highlight the column through a code found on another question ie =L$6=TODAY but I'm looking to focus on the week commencing rather than the day we're sitting on.
Any help would be really appreciated :)

Try this one
=L$6=(WEEKNUM(TODAY(),2)+1)
If you are interested in the days of the next week to the present day, beginning on Monday (2).
Hope it helps

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Counting the historical view of open files

Good morning,
I'm trying to get an historical count on files going back two years, regardless of their status now. The files have 4 dates that will factor into this (Created, Closed, Reopened and Reclosed) my thought was to find the Monday of the week in relation to dates above, this would give me the last time it could have been Open / Re-Opened. Formula Below -
=IF(A2="open",B2-WEEKDAY(B2,3),IF(A2="reopened",D2-WEEKDAY(D2,3),IF(A2="Closed",C2-WEEKDAY(C2,3),IF(A2="Re-closed",E2-WEEKDAY(E2,3)))))
I figured from this I could find out what the active work in progress was at the start of any given Monday - however I'm struggling to figure out how to calculate this - or if is even possible? my first though was that =Countif( would work but not having any luck.
Does anybody know how or experienced a similar challenge before?
Edit for comment (Example) -
This is a small example with the desired output to the right.

How to filter data of last record of each week

I have a big data set of daily selling value of a particular ITEM. I want to know what was the price of ITEM on the last day of each week. Typically the last working day is Friday but if you don't have data for Friday then we need to get the previous working day data (Thursday).
Monday is considered the First day of week.
My Data looks something like this:
Data is in cells A2:C13.
My expected output is shown below:
Please help with VB macro or even simple excel formula.
You may want to try using a formula using the LOOKUP function, to search the list from bottom to top.
Afterward, a combination of INDEX and MATCH may get you on the right path as well.
Edit: I realize now that I was leading you astray because I thought you were asking something else! The most straightforward way I can see is as follows:
use WEEKDAY() to pull out the weekday values (as you did), except leave the values as numbers (with 1 being Sunday and 7 being Saturday).
Check each of these days to see if it precedes (i.e. has a lesser value) than the day above it. If not, we know that the week started over, and that cell is the last day of the week. Therefore, display its value.
Of course, this assumes that there are no Saturdays in your data - otherwise, Saturday would be listed as the end of the week. If you're crafty you can fix this dilemma though!
Thanks, Tyler.
Your suggestion helped me a lot in putting efforts in the right direction.
The way I did is as follows:
First I sorted my data in decreasing order of date so that I can have all the latest data at the top.
Range("AW4:BE999999").Sort Key1:=Range("BC4:BC999999"), order1:=xlDescending, Header:=xlYes
From Date created a string of "YEAR"&"WEEKNUM". This way I was able to group all the days in a specific week. Formula Used is:
=(TEXT(BC5,"yyyy"))&(TEXT(WEEKNUM(BC5),"00"))
Then I gave a unique Number to each record. The best way I could think of is to give the row number where record belongs.
=ROW(AY5)
Now using VLOOKUP function I got all the records matching string I have created in step 2
=VLOOKUP(AZ5,AZ:BD,5,FALSE)
I applied the above formula to get all the columns that I need.
Now I removed all the duplicate rows using below formula:
Cells.RemoveDuplicates Columns:=Array(1)
Now the remaining rows are the expected rows.
There may be a better way to do this but this is my first time with excel macro and formulas, so feeling happy.
Please comment other better ways to do this. It's always good to keep on improving our work.

Working out number of days between 2 dates based on a specific premise

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I have a spreadsheet which I use to populate scheduled meetings of various venues (at the moment these dates I enter in manually from a reference sheet as I don’t know how to do it with a formula).
Each week, when staff go to the venue for their meeting I then enter in (again manually) what date they actually went to the venue for the meeting.
What I then have to do, is work out if they went to the meeting within our agreed time-frame, and if not, how many days late were they. However, this calculation part will just take days to do by hand as there are so many meetings to analyse.
To work out if someone is within time frame or is late, it works on this premise:
If your meeting was scheduled to take place in say week 40, you have until the Friday of week 41 to go. Any working day after that is a day late (so if for example you ended up going to the meeting on the Tuesday in week 42 you would be 2 days late). Weekends and holidays should not be included in the calculation as staff don't work on bank holidays.
The link shows an example of how this looks - you can pretty much ignore the first tab as that's just me working out some example dates to put into the main tab and the last tab is the bank holidays for the remainder of this year and next.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KaEAB59311W8_M1FdAL96753SirqY3dtl4eTzIruzK8/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks so much in advanced for reading this, and if anyone is able to help or has any ideas on how to even get started with this I’d really welcome your thoughts !
Okay, this was my best attempt at this for the time I've got now - This will work if the max amount of time that a scheduled meeting can take place is up to 2 weeks beyond the original limit - anything more than that and it will be off, but you could change that IF formula to account for that:
=IF(D2-(B2+13-WEEKDAY(B2))<0,0,IF(D2-(B2+13-WEEKDAY(B2))>7,D2-(B2+13-WEEKDAY(B2))-4,D2-(B2+13-WEEKDAY(B2))-2))
Screenshot from posted file:

Excel - Finding nth day of specific month from any day of the year

I'm creating a daily scheduling report. Not every position in the report has to be staffed every day, but there's rules determining this (daylight savings mostly) and I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out a good way to do this that will make it anyone-proof for the person that needs to fill out the sheet on any given day.
My issue: Starting the first sunday in november, one position doesn't need to be staffed all the time. This continues until the second sunday in march. I want the box that shows this position to be conditionally formatted based on what today's date is (which is shown in E1 using =Today() )
I got something close to working (though it looks disgusting), and would cite sources, but I just came back to working on this project after a couple months of a different assignment:
=IF(MONTH(E1)>10,AND((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,1+7*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,8-1))))<E1,E1<(DATE(YEAR(E1)+1,3,1+14*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1)+1,3,8-1))))),AND(DATE(YEAR((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,1+7*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,8-1))))-1),MONTH((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,1+7*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,8-1))))),DAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,1+7*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),11,8-1)))))),E1<(DATE(YEAR(E1),3,1+14*1)-WEEKDAY((DATE(YEAR(E1),3,8-1))))))
It seems to kick in during the SECOND Sunday in November. I'm particularly flummoxed now. It's been an interesting intersection of "I'm pretty good with computers and layout design" and now all of a sudden diving deeper than I'd ever thought i'd go in excel. Keeping that in mind, I'm starting to feel a little out of my depth already and I'm sure VBA could do this easily but I wouldn't know the first thing about what I'm doing which means if anything ever goes wrong because someone accidentally deleted something I won't be able to fix it.
TL;DR: Trying to hit a moving target of a date based off of a dynamic entry in E1. Based off of E1 find the first sunday in november and the second sunday in March of the following year (or i suppose current year once we roll back around to january)
=OR(DATE(YEAR(E1),11,15-WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(E1),11,1),2))<=E1,DATE(YEAR(E1),3,15-WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(E1),3,1),2))>=E1)
alternatively you can replace E1 in the formula with TODAY(). This equation will evaluate to True or False

Select pay rate based on day and shift start time

Im creating an excel pay sheet so i can keep tabs on my pay.
I have two pay rates,
£9.30 is paid for hours worked from 6pm to 8am Monday to Thursday
£10.30 is paid for hours worked from 6pm Friday to 8am Monday.
I have a column that displays the pay rate, i want this to populate automatically with excel looking at the day of the week and then the start time and then returning the correct pay rate.
For example,
If the day is a Mon and the start time is 6pm return £9.30
If the day is Fri and the start time is 6pm return £10.30 etc etc
Any one have any ideas on how i can achieve this? Id rather this be formula based instead of VBA if possible but if it cant be formula based then VBA it is.
Thanks in advance
I had to make a few assumptions because your question was unclear about the possible start times for your shifts. Your wording and examples lead me to believe that your shifts always begin at 6 PM regardless of the day. I created a possible solution or start to a solution based on that assumption that does not rely on VBA. I've included links to an excel workbook with my solution and a screen shot. (I'm only allowed 2 links with my current rep.)
As Gowtham Shiva suggested in the comments, a screen shot of what you have so far would be helpful.
I created two tables and a named ranged called “valDays”. To use the workbook, you enter the date and start time for your shift in tblPay. Enter the pay rate for a specific day and time in tblRates. valDays provides a way to convert the text for a day of the week into a number for calculating date/time serial numbers.
Feel free to comment/message me for clarification. I’ll do my best to reply and refine the solution as necessary. I hope you find this answer helpful and appreciate feedback. This is my first time providing an answer on Stack Overflow.
I’m going to assume you know how to name a range, create tables, and rename tables in excel. If you don’t there are plenty of YouTubers and bloggers that cover these topics quite well.
List the days in a column off to the right. (I used column K.) “Sun”, “Mon”, “Tue”, etc. Select all the cells with the days of the week and name the range “valDays”.
Formula in tblRates[Serial]:
“=MATCH(tblRates[[#This Row],[Day]],valDays,0)+tblRates[[#This Row],[Time]]”
Formula in tblPay[Serial]:
“=WEEKDAY([Date])+[StartTime]”
Formula in tblPay[Rate]:
“=INDEX(tblRates[Rate],MATCH([Serial],tblRates[Serial],0))”
You can download the excel document and view these screenshots of a possible solution.
Link to Excel Workbook on Google Drive
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