Filtering weekdays in Excel 2007

I wanted to conditionally format all Mondays in a date range. I found no way to do this with conditional formatting and filters, but at least I found a workaround.

In a column, next to the table I have, I used this formula:

=IF(WEEKDAY(Table1[[#This Row];[Datum]])=2;”Monday”;”Not Monday”)

I copied this formula to the other cells and then I filtered that specific column for Mondays and colored the background of those cells manually. This method does obviously not work so well if you have a lot of data, but formatting a few rows where dates are not changing should at least be quicker than manually going through each date.

You could also use something like this:

=IF(WEEKDAY(A1)=2;”Monday”;”Not Monday”)

The weekdays have the following numbering:

Sunday = 1
Monday = 2
Tuesday = 3
Wednesday = 4
Thursday = 5
Friday = 6
Saturday = 7

Tracking memory usage

Lessons learned:

  1. Graphics on the timeline are much heavier SWF resources than SWF files with externalized resources.
  2. Always implement a destroy method for custom classes, to call when the object needs to be removed and made available for garbage collection.
  3. Stage event listeners are bad.
  4. Track your memory usage before deploying a project and shipping it to the customer’s public event.