Creating date sequence in Excel 97

sgmacs

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I've run out of ideas about how to create a date sequence for a work rota. It's a recurring weekly pattern of five dates and then two dates doubled, e.g.

Jul/01/04
Jul/02/04
Jul/03/04
Jul/04/04
Jul/05/04
Jul/06/04
Jul/06/04
Jul/07/04
Jul/07/04

This is followed by a gap, and then the pattern repeats ad infinitum. Currently I do this manually, and it's terribly tedious.

Any suggestions gratefully received.
 

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Try to prevent wild guesses on the part of the would be helpers by specifying the rule how you create the sequence. Anything special about the start date? Do the week end dates play any special role, etc.?
 
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No, it's very simple. The first date is a Monday, the last two are Saturday and Sunday split into two shifts.
 
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sgmacs said:
No, it's very simple. The first date is a Monday, the last two are Saturday and Sunday split into two shifts.

1-July-04 is a Thursday...

The formula in A3 is:

=A2+IF(OR(WEEKDAY(LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,$A$2:A2),2)={6,7}),0,1)+(A2=A1)
 
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