Here's an attempt at the problem using functions in various cells.  Hope this helps!

A1 is the current date.

A12 is the first Friday after the current date:
=A1+6-WEEKDAY(A1,1)

A16 is the first day of the current month:
=EOMONTH(A1,-1)+1

D16 is the first Friday of the current month:
=A16+6-WEEKDAY(A16)

A20 is the last day of the current month:
=EOMONTH(A1,0)

D20 is the last Friday of the current month:
=IF(MONTH(A20-1-WEEKDAY(A20))=MONTH(A20+6-WEEKDAY(A20)),A20+6-WEEKDAY(A20),A20-1-WEEKDAY(A20))

This is not a VB script but if you check
http://www.geocities.com/flareman_xs/datePage.html
I have put up an Excel sheet which does this.

Thank you BML and Flareman, both solutions work well and have solved the problem. While not VB I am more than happy with this solution and will incorporate it into my application.

Dennis Kirk Engineering
www.ozemail.com.au/~denniskb

There is a way to determine the day of the week with formulas.  Let's say A12 is the date.  Then just do a "mod(a12,7)".  This will return a value from 0 to 6.  With 0 being Sunday, and 6 being Saturday.

You could mod your current date.  Then have a cell that subtracts that value from 5.  Add this number back to your mod'd date, and you have the next Friday's date.

GB

I'd love to be able to find Friday's faster and more frequently. They don't come often enough.

The following formulas seem to work in Excel 2000

Enter a date in cell A1

Next Friday
=IF(WEEKDAY(A1,2)<5,A1+(5-WEEKDAY(A1,2)),A1+(12-WEEKDAY(A1,2)))

Last Friday of month
=IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,0),2)=5,EOMONTH(A1,0),IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,0),2)<5,EOMONTH(A1,0)-(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,0),2)+2),IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,0),2)>5,EOMONTH(A1,0)-(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,0),2)-5))))

First Friday of month
=IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,-1),2)=5,EOMONTH(A1,-1)+7,IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,-1),2)<5,EOMONTH(A1,-1)+5-(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,-1),2)),IF(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,-1),2)>5,EOMONTH(A1,-1)+(12-WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(A1,-1),2)))))

Hi all, thanks for the help offered.

With the various tips provided I have managed to solve this one now, but in the worksheet, not in VBA.

If anyone wants it I will be happy to forward the spreadsheet. Contact me at denniskb@ozemail.com.au

Dennis Kirk Engineering
www.ozemail.com.au/~denniskb

Dennis,

If you or anyone else is interested, here are some VBA functions that do what you required.  These can be used as worksheet functions in addition to being called from within a VBA procedure.  Supply a valid date as the argument (or cell reference containing a date).  These will convert a Date+Time input and return a Date only value.  There are a couple of additional functions here that the others require but could also be used directly.  The Demo_DateFunctions procedure just demonstrates usage of these functions.

Sub Demo_DateFunctions()
  MsgBox "First Friday after date: " & FirstFridayAfterDate(ActiveSheet.Range("A1"))
  MsgBox "First Friday of Month: " & FirstFridayOfMonth(ActiveSheet.Range("A1"))
  MsgBox "Last Friday of Month: " & LastFridayOfMonth(ActiveSheet.Range("A1"))
End Sub


Function FirstFridayAfterDate(ByVal DateVal As Date) As Date
Dim WkDay As Integer

  DateVal = Int(DateVal)
  WkDay = Weekday(DateVal)
  If WkDay = 6 Then
    FirstFridayAfterDate = DateVal + 7
  ElseIf WkDay = 7 Then
    FirstFridayAfterDate = DateVal + 6
  Else
    FirstFridayAfterDate = DateVal + 6 - WkDay
  End If
End Function


Function FirstFridayBeforeDate(ByVal DateVal As Date) As Date
Dim WkDay As Integer

  DateVal = Int(DateVal)
  WkDay = Weekday(DateVal)
  If WkDay = 7 Then
    FirstFridayBeforeDate = DateVal - 1
  Else
    FirstFridayBeforeDate = DateVal - (WkDay + 1)
  End If
End Function



Function FirstFridayOfMonth(ByVal DateVal As Date) As Date
Dim Mnth As Integer
Dim Yr As Integer
Dim DateTmp As Date

  DateVal = Int(DateVal)
  Mnth = DatePart("m", DateVal)
  Yr = DatePart("yyyy", DateVal)
  DateTmp = DateSerial(Yr, Mnth, 1)
  If Weekday(DateTmp) = 6 Then
    FirstFridayOfMonth = DateTmp
  Else
    FirstFridayOfMonth = FirstFridayAfterDate(DateTmp)
  End If
  
End Function


Function LastFridayOfMonth(ByVal DateVal As Date) As Date
Dim Mnth As Integer
Dim Yr As Integer
Dim DateTmp As Date

  DateVal = Int(DateVal)
  Mnth = DatePart("m", DateVal)
  Yr = DatePart("yyyy", DateVal)

  DateTmp = DateSerial(Yr, Mnth, DaysInMonth(Mnth, Yr))
  If Weekday(DateTmp) = 6 Then
    LastFridayOfMonth = DateTmp
  Else
    LastFridayOfMonth = FirstFridayBeforeDate(DateTmp)
  End If
  
End Function



Function DaysInMonth(ByVal Month As Integer, ByVal Year As Integer) As Integer

  Select Case Month
    Case 2
      If IsLeapYear(Year) Then
        DaysInMonth = 29
      Else
        DaysInMonth = 28
      End If
    Case 4, 6, 9, 11
      DaysInMonth = 30
    Case Else
      DaysInMonth = 31
  End Select
  
End Function


Function IsLeapYear(Year As Integer) As Boolean
  IsLeapYear = (Month(DateSerial(Year, 2, 29)) = 2)
End Function


Regards,
Mike