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In this post, we will discuss about "How to find the number of specific days between two given dates?". Specific days is nothing but weekdays. 

Eg: Howmany Sundays are there between two given dates? If you have a solution, stop reading this post and update your answers in the below given comments section.

If you have less time to explore here you go for a quick solution.

FUNCTIONS USED:

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• SUMPRODUCT
• TEXT
• ROW
• INDIRECT

FORMULA:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(TEXT(ROW(INDIRECT(end_date&":"&start_date)),"DDDD")="specific_day"))

EXPLANATION:

INDIRECT function is used to convert given dates (text string) into a reference. This is because ROW accepts only reference as an argument.

TEXT function is used to display the resulting number into a text string, like "Sunday", "Monday" and etc.,

-- is called 'double minus', which means it converts text to values, eg: TRUE as 1 and FALSE as 0

SUMPRODUCT function is used to sum all the 1's and displays the total.

CONCLUSION: 

Basically, there is no inbuilt function which is ready to use to achieve this result. So, we have worked around using multiple functions to achieve the desired results.

This formula will help to know how many specific days (name of the day) are available between given dates.

With this, any company or organization who are paying salary on a weekly basis to their employees can calculate the pay easily if at all employee(s) start date is different and the employees are getting the salary based on start date/ joining date. If few of the employees are ready to take salary based on their requirment, say two weeks once or four weeks once, then this formula will help the management with out any flaws.

^*The above example is just one example and is only for your understanding.

That's it from my end. See you in the next awesome post.

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