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. As a result, to return TRUE for dates that are either Saturday or Sunday, we only need to test for numbers greater than 5. The conditional formatting formula applied to the calendar area (starting with D4) looks like this: The reference to D4 is mixed, with the row locked so that the formula continues to evaluate the dates in the header for all rows in the calendar grid.
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