Gantt Chart With Weekends Excel Formula
Note: this formula deals with weekend shading only. To see how to build the date bars with conditional formatting, see this article. To shade days that are weekends, we are using a formula based on the weekday function. By default, the weekday function returns a number between 1 and 7 that corresponds to days of the week, where Sunday is 1 and Saturday is 7. However, by adding the optional second argument called “return type” with a value of 2, the numbering scheme changes so that Monday is 1 and Saturday and Sunday are 6 and 7, respectively....