Excel VBA If Sunday or Saturday

Excel VBA is a powerful tool for automating repetitive tasks in Excel. Often, we may need to check whether the current date is a Saturday or Sunday so that we can exclude those days from a task or apply a different set of rules. In this article, we will learn how to use Excel VBA to check if the day is a Saturday or Sunday.

Checking If Date is Saturday or Sunday

To check whether the current date is a Saturday or Sunday, we can use the Weekday function in Excel VBA. This function returns a number representing the day of the week, with Sunday being the first day of the week and Saturday being the last day of the week. We can use this function to check whether the current day is a Saturday or Sunday by comparing the result with the vbSaturday and vbSunday constants.

Sub checkWeekendDay()

    ' Get current date
    Dim currentDate As Date
    currentDate = Date
    
    ' Check if current date is a weekend day
    If Weekday(currentDate) = vbSaturday Or Weekday(currentDate) = vbSunday Then
        MsgBox "Today is a weekend day!"
    Else
        MsgBox "Today is not a weekend day!"
    End If
    
End Sub

In the above example, we first get the current date using the Date function. We then use the Weekday function to get the day of the week, which we compare with the vbSaturday and vbSunday constants to check if the current day is a weekend day. If the day is a weekend day, we display a message using the MsgBox function.

Conclusion

In this article, we learned how to use Excel VBA to check whether the current day is a Saturday or Sunday. By using the Weekday function and comparing the result with the vbSaturday and vbSunday constants, we were able to determine if the current day is a weekend day. These skills can be useful in automating tasks in Excel and making our work more efficient.