Introduction
ISOWEEKNUM function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. This function is used to find week number in ISO standard form (1-54). In ISO system, a week start on Monday and 1st week of the year always have a Thursday. For example, JAN 14 2018 gives 2 as the result when used in ISOWEEKNUM function.
Syntax
=ISOWEEKNUM(Serial_Date)
Arguments
- Serial_Date- This is a Date in a valid excel format.
Keynotes
- In General formatting of Excel, Dates are in form of serial numbers. Serial number 1 is for 1 JAN, 1900 and the number increases from thereon. For getting it in readable form use the formatting tab.
- The argument used must represent a valid date in Excel format.
- If the arguments used have number values which are out of range of valid excel date, #NUM error is displayed
- If the arguments used have strings which cannot be converted into valid dates, #VALUE error is displayed.
Examples
In this example, Date in form of text and serial number are given in column A and column B respectively. ISOWEEKNUM function is used in column D to retrieve the week number in ISO standards of the given date.
