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[Closed] Excel help - Weekly count down

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Afternoon all, I’m after a bit of Excel help.

I want to auto calculate the number of weeks remaining of the financial year so that I can use that number in another formula. The number of weeks remaining will automatically reduce as the year ticks by, which in turn will be used by another formula

Anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:16 pm
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=53-WEEKNUM(TODAY())

works for Jan-Dec

When does your financial year start?


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:24 pm
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Set two cells to date format.

Type end of year in one

Type =now() in tuther

Third cell =cell1-cell2 then you need to decimal ise it and mind mind has gone blank.


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:26 pm
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= (<whenever your financial year date is> - today() ) / 7

Or Now() or whatever it is in English, my Excel is in Spanish 🙂


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:26 pm
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Divide by 7 as above


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:27 pm
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something like this

=ROUND((C2-TODAY())/7, 0)

where C2 is the financial year end

ROUND rounds the week up to the nearest integer.


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:27 pm
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Cheers all. I'll have a play about with the formulas above.


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:36 pm
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Today() would work netter than now()

Forgot that


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:39 pm
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slackboy has the right answer (an improved version of mine) - although ROUND doesn't round [i]up[/i] always, it depends on the decimal.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_other/whats-the-difference-between-round-ceiling-and/97d94607-69d5-4d35-b030-2f1942a51c6b


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:41 pm
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slackboy has the right answer (an improved version of mine) - although ROUND doesn't round up always, it depends on the decimal.

yup, probably better to use ROUNDUP or ROUNDDOWN depending on preference.


 
Posted : 18/10/2016 12:45 pm