If you’ve thought that, when you start using PowerPivot, will get rid of array lookup functions you were deadly wrong! Although the concept of a data model does not go hand in hand with the need to use these class of functions, it is sometimes necessary to search the arrays. To do this you will use the LOOKUPVALUE function, and how to use it, in combination with the WEEKDAY function, you will find out in the text that follows.
There are several ways to create Excel calendar. Also there are multiple templates that you can use for that purpose. The goal of this „recipe“ is helping you to understand practical application of some important date&time functions, and creating a calendar is an ideal opportunity to do so. When you learn how to generate dates and positions they should fit in you can use calendar for planning activities or tracking project realization.
When the reports contain dates and/or times, it is useful to know how to use the date and time functions. These functions allow us first to retrieve the system date and/or time and to display it within the cell. Then, by using them, we can distinguish a date/time unit (day, month, year, hour, minute, second, etc.) and use them to calculate the time or date in the future. For example, a date that comes in 5 days …