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Formula to find Previous Friday date

Kaish
8 - Asteroid
‎05-19-2025 04:27 AM

I have a requirement where I want to add previous Friday date in my excel output Ex - (Output-16May25), So if I run this on any day of the week it should five previous Fridays date in this format, so if I am running this file on 28th May the output should be (Output-23May25) , Can someone help me find the solution ?

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris
‎05-19-2025 04:39 AM

@Kaish 
We can get first the Weekday (1-7) with Identifier "%u" then do some calculation as below.

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davidskaife
14 - Magnetar
‎05-19-2025 04:45 AM

Hi @Kaish 

 

Here is one way of doing it:

 

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