NETWORKDAYS - Microsoft Office Excel

Returns the number of whole working days between start_date and end_date. Working days exclude weekends and any dates identified in holidays. Use NETWORKDAYS to calculate employee benefits that accrue based on the number of days worked during a specific term.

Syntax

NETWORKDAYS(start_date,end_date,holidays)

Important Dates should be entered by using the DATE function, or as results of other formulas or functions. For example, use DATE(2008,5,23) for the 23rd day of May, 2008. Problems can occur if dates are entered as text.

Start_date is a date that represents the start date.

End_date is a date that represents the end date.

Holidays is an optional range of one or more dates to exclude from the working calendar, such as state and federal holidays and floating holidays. The list can be either a range of cells that contains the dates or an array constant of the serial numbers that represent the dates.

Remarks

Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days after January 1, 1900. Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh uses a different date system as its default.
If any argument is not a valid date, NETWORKDAYS returns the #VALUE! error value.

Example

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Create a blank workbook or worksheet.
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Note Do not select the row or column headers.
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Press CTRL+C.
In the worksheet, select cell A1, and press CTRL+V.
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A	B
Date	Description
10/01/2008	Start date of project
3/01/2009	End date of project
11/26/2008	Holiday
12/4/2008	Holiday
1/21/2009	Holiday
Formula	Description (Result)
=NETWORKDAYS(A2,A3)	Number of workdays between the start and end date above (108)
=NETWORKDAYS(A2,A3,A4)	Number of workdays between the start and end date above, excluding the first holiday (107)
=NETWORKDAYS(A2,A3,A4:A6)	Number of workdays between the start and end date above, excluding every holiday above (105)

Note To convert the range of cells used for holidays in the last example into an array constant, select reference A4:A6 in the formula and then press F9.

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