How to use the WEEKDAY function to extract the day of the week from a date in Google Sheets?

The WEEKDAY function in Google Sheets is used to extract the day of the week from a given date. This function takes a date as input and returns a number representing the day of the week, starting from Sunday (which is assigned the value 1).

The syntax for the WEEKDAY function is as follows:

=WEEKDAY(date, [type])

where date is the date from which you want to extract the day of the week, and type is an optional argument that specifies the type of return value you want.

The type argument can take the following values:

• 1 (default) - returns numbers 1-7, where Sunday is 1 and Saturday is 7
• 2 - returns numbers 0-6, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6

To use the WEEKDAY function to extract the day of the week from a date in Google Sheets, simply enter the function in a cell and provide the date as the argument. For example, if you have a date in cell A1, you can extract the day of the week using the following formula:

=WEEKDAY(A1)

This will return a number representing the day of the week for the date in cell A1.