Normally
just getting the amount of days between to dates in Excel isn’t enough.
At times, you need to get the number of weekdays specifically. For
this, there’s a very useful function in both Excel and Google
Spreadsheets:
=NETWORKDAYS()
.
Days between two dates
Say you have two dates, cell
A1 = 2014/01/14
and cell
A2 = 2014/01/30
.
When you just want the days between two dates, you can easily subtract
the earlier day from the later day to get the number of days in between
with
A2-A1 = 16
.
Weekdays between two dates
To get the difference in weekdays only, just use
=NETWORKDAYS(A1, A2) = 13
. Make sure to put the start date as the first argument, and the end date as the second argument.
Using NETWORKDAYS()
In general, you can use it like:
=NETWORKDAYS(start_date, end_date)