How can I highlight cells in Google Sheets if current month? - google-sheets

How can I highlight cells in Google Sheets if current month?
The cells have Jan-2017, Feb-2017 etc. and not dates.
I just want the current month highlighted so that the rest of the team can keep track of our monthly stats.

I'm supposing the column that has the months is A, and that the actual values of each cell is the first day of each month (so 2/1/2017 for February for example).
Select where you want the conditional formating to go, and open the conditional formatting sidebar.
Choose "Custom Formula" from the dropdown, and paste the following in:
=$A:$A=(today()-day(today())+1)
What we are doing here is:
=A$:A$ - Look in column A for the following
today() get todays date
-day(today()) get the day and subtract it from the today in the previous point
+1 add 1 to the result because 2/8/2017 - 8 = 2/0/2017, which google sheets actually recognizes as 1/31/2017, so by adding 1 it will become 2/1/2017 which is what is wanted.
The result of this sum is then compared to the data found in A$:A$ and the results which match the sum (today()-day(today())+1) are highlighted.

Just for the record, this may work as well using conditional formatting's custom formula:
=month($A:$A)=month(today())
Considering the dates are in the column A

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I am trying to build a sleep tracker in Google Sheets (link). The idea is to select a year and a month from a drop-down list in cells A1 and A2, which would then populate columns based on the number of days in that month. I have tried different formulas that I found on stack overflow and elsewhere, but could not get them to work.
In short:
I am looking for a formula that will populate the columns with days of that month and a name of the day in a row bellow.
Looking for a way to summarize the time of sleep at the end of the each day, based on a ticked checkbox.
I am not sure how the year and month selectors should be formatted (as plain number or a date).
Is there a way to automatically insert check-boxes to the days of the month?
This is the formula that I have tried to adjust:
=INDEX({TEXT(SEQUENCE(1; DAY(EOMONTH(A2&"/"&A1;0)); A2&"/"&A1; 1); {"d"; "ddd"}); {"Total"; ""}})
But it returns with "Error In ARRAY_LITERAL, an Array Literal was missing values for one or more rows."
Please note that ";" is used as an argument separator instead of "," (regional settings).
Thank you in advance!
I think that with a very small adaptation and date formatting you'll be able to easily do it. First with your selector in A2, you could set it as actual dates, but format them as mmmm:
Then, repeat the sequence in both rows starting in C2 and C3:
=SEQUENCE(1,DAY(EOMONTH(A2,0)),A2)
But formatting row 3 as ddd:
PS: yes, you can do row 3 with TEXT and INDEX. Choose your preferred one:
=INDEX(TEXT(SEQUENCE(1,DAY(EOMONTH(A2,0)),A2),"dddd"))
UPDATE with TEXT VALUES
Return to your previous A2 dropdown and try this, using MATCH to find the number of the month, and DATE to locate the correct beginning of the month in that year:
For row 2:
=SEQUENCE(1,DAY(EOMONTH(DATE(A1,MATCH(A2,{"January","February","March","April","May","June","July","September","October","November","December"},0),1),0)),
DATE(A1,MATCH(A2,{"January","February","March","April","May","June","July","September","October","November","December"},0),1))
For row 3:
=INDEX(TEXT(SEQUENCE(1,DAY(EOMONTH(DATE(A1,MATCH(A2,{"January","February","March","April","May","June","July","September","October","November","December"},0),1),0)),
DATE(A1,MATCH(A2,{"January","February","March","April","May","June","July","September","October","November","December"},0),1)),"dddd")
)

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I'm trying to apply multiple conditional formatting to a google sheets column. I want two conditions:
A Column needs to equal/contain "Accepted" from a dropdown cell
B Column needs to contain a future due date that is within 14 days to today
I want to highlight C column based on those two conditions being met with a priority flag for Accepted and has a due date within 14 days of today. Here's what I've got so far:
Custom conditional formatting for column C is:
=(A="Assigned")+(B<=TODAY()+14)
What I'd like to see is:
=(A="Assigned")+(B<=TODAY()+14)+(B>=TODAY())
But it's not working. Either I have to specify the exact reference columns (ex: A5) which aren't what I want, or it's not working at all. Any recommendations?
Yes - just get it right for the first row (say row 2) and the other rows will follow by relative addressing:
=and(A2="Accepted",B2>=today(),B2<=today()+14)
If you want to apply the conditional formatting to more than one column, put in dollar signs to anchor the columns:
and($A2="Accepted",$B2>=today(),$B2<=today()+14)
you were close... this is what would work as well:
=($A2="Assigned")*($B2<=TODAY()+14)*($B2>=TODAY())

Google Sheets - Add range of dates based on string

Is it possible in Google sheets to have a formula which looks at a certain date and creates a range of dates based on it?
I have this google sheet:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ccLwh_ExEtE2zxYUor9hxi1hMyADQtuUgyCyOKASxIk
Is it possible to have formulas in the left column rows to just look at the date string "august" and automatically fill in the dates down each row? Preferably with this format I have in this sheet? Like:
monday
1
Tuesday
2
Wednesday
3
I know it's possible to format a date so it ways monday 1 e.g, but for some reason, google sheets doesn't text wrap dates and I want a line break between the day and number, if possible.
Any help truly appreciated!
Since tagged [excel-formula]:
=TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATEVALUE(1&"August"&2016)+ROW()-1),"dddd")&CHAR(10)&ROW()
in Row1 and copied down to suit should work. (For just Google Sheets this Q probably belongs on Web Applications.)
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I'm trying to have a function in Google Sheets that adds up values from a range if the were entered on a Monday. This is what I have right now, but it adds up to 0 all the time:
=sumif(B6:B20, WEEKDAY(2),C7)
Can someone tell me how to determine what day of the week a number cell was added on, and then add up all the numbers added on that day so I can put the sum in a different cell? (For example, the numbers in the range were added on various days of the week, and I want to add up all the numbers that were added on Monday)
Assuming column B is the column to sum and column C has the dates try:
=sumproduct(weekday(C2:C) = 2,B2:B)

Highlight out of date cells

currently I have a spread sheet of dates. A1 is todays date 3 years ago.
A3:A20 are various dates when employees gained their first aid certificate.
When any cell in A3:A20 is less than A1 it would mean their certificate is out of date. I would like it to be highlighted.
Does anyone have any ideas? mine have all failed :)
Something like this should work in new google sheets.
In cell A1 put in todays date by using
=Now()
Go to Format, conditional formatting
Select custom formula is
Enter
=datedif(A$3:A$20,$A$1,"Y")>3
Select your colour, such as red, then finally in the range. put A3:A20

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