I believe this is the equivalent of your second new solution?
Evaluate("=Text(Day(Sheets(RawData).Cells(count, BarDate).Text),
""dddd"")")
I tried it with and without the .text part. Both cases returned error
2015 though I have a 4 digit year and the form is month/day/year which is
supposed to be what it wants.
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:30:29 PM UTC-7, Lalit_Mohan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can try this
> Evaluate("=TEXT(DAY(A1),""dddd"")")
>
> Hope it helps you
>
> Regards,
> Lalit Mohan
>
> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 09:45:46 UTC+5:30, tangledweb wrote:
>
>> This seems to be designed to work directly in excel instead of a VB
>> program. I tried to use it without the = but it said the function TEXT was
>> not defined.
>> I need a method that works in a VB program with the value 6/26/2012
>> stored in the array previously listed.
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:01:08 PM UTC-7, Lalit_Mohan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You can try this
>>> =TEXT(DAY(A1),"dddd")
>>>
>>> Hope it helps you
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Lalit Mohan
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 09:17:02 UTC+5:30, tangledweb wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I already have Sheets(RawData).Cells(count, BarDate).Text having a
>>>> value like 6/26/2012 is there a way to get the day of the week as a number
>>>> or string for that date that does not require splitting it into its parts
>>>> and feeding them to some function? If the latter the .net examples I
>>>> found
>>>> for that did not make sense to me so how is it done?
>>>
>>>
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