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» Calculating a Project's End Date

CATEGORY: Excel Date & Time Formulas

VERSIONS: All Microsoft Excel Versions

Problem:

Columns A & B contain the start date of various projects and the number of hours required for each project's completion.
We want to calculate each project's end date, based on the number of required hours, a specified number of daily working hours (cell C2), and the assumption that work is only done on weekdays.

Solution:

Use the WORKDAY and ROUNDUP functions as shown in the following formula:
=WORKDAY(A2,ROUNDUP(B2/$C$2,0))

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Project End with/without overtime.
RaginCajun wrote on June 05, 2006 07:51 EST

I was trying to figure out how you could caluculate a project end date, based on a start date (mm,dd,yyyy) and a project duration of lets say 6 hours, in an 18 hour work day and the work week is four days long (monday thru Thursday). I also would like to repeat the same calculation to include Friday thru Sunday only and again for the whole week monday thru Monday.

Cheers!

Dee Jackson wrote on December 31, 1969 18:00 EST

I would like to know how to project an end date. I want to write in a start date 02/24/2006 and want excel to put in the date after 180 days. For example after 180 days of 02/24/06 would be 08/22/06.

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