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This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Weekday Abbreviations in Excel and Google Sheets.
TEXT, CHOOSE and WEEKDAY Functions
To get the weekday abbreviation from a date, we can use the TEXT function, or we can use the CHOOSE and WEEKDAY functions.
TEXT Function
We can use the TEXT function to obtain the weekday abbreviation.
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=TEXT(B3, "ddd") |
In Excel, dates are stored as serial numbers, where each number represents an unique date. The TEXT Function converts a number into a specified text format. Here we specify the format “ddd” to get the day name abbreviation of a date.
CHOOSE and WEEKDAY functions
Alternatively, we can use the CHOOSE and WEEKDAY functions to create a custom weekday abbreviation.
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=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B3),"S","M","T","W","T","F","S") |
WEEKDAY function
First, we can get the weekday from cell B3
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=WEEKDAY(B3) |
CHOOSE function
Next, we can use the CHOOSE function to choose the position of the abbreviation from the listed options, based on the value returned by the weekday function.
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=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(C3),"S","M","T","W","T","F","S") |
Joining these 2 formulas together gives us our result.
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=CHOOSE(WEEKDAY(B3),"S","M","T","W","T","F","S") |
Weekday Abbreviations in Google Sheets
All the above examples work the same way in Google Sheets.
