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Is it possible in Excel to have a cell show text that is different from its value?
I would like to have a a cell that has the value 1,2,3 ... or 7 but it will show day of the week as text - but when I use the cell value in formulas it should use the numbers!
Any suggestions?
1+1 might add that the custom cell format is DDDD – datatoo – 2011-05-10T22:03:23.297
custom cell format is DDDD works if the cell value is a date serial number – chris neilsen – 2011-05-11T08:45:36.380
1DDDD works iff you are happy to have Sunday as day 1, since by coincidence 1/1/1900 is a Sunday and 7/1/1900 is a Saturday. Otherwise you need multiple conditional formats to make this work as Chris describes. NB: you can improve the efficiency of the conditions if you tick the "stop if true" box for each one, since you know these conditions are mutually exclusive. You would not want to do that if you are also applying other later conditions though (shuffle the order to suit). – AdamV – 2011-07-19T11:43:08.780