Current Thursday Date of This Week using VBA Functions

Current Thursday Date using Excel VBA Functions Now, DateAdd,Format and WeekDay. We have different methods and ways to find Current Week Thursday date. You can find below two specified macros or procedures to find Current week Thursday date of this week using VBA functions. i.e Date, DateAdd, WeekDay and Format.

We are trying to find current week Thursday date based on current or today’s date. Lets say today’s date is 13th Dec 2018 and weekday is Thursday then current date of Thursday should be 13th Dec 2018 and weekday is Thursday. In this tutorial we have explained three methods to find Current week Thursday date. To avoid using time, you can replace Date with Now. Then there is no difference in output.

Table of Contents:

Objective
Method1: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions
Method2: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions
Method3: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions
Instructions to Run VBA Macro Code
Other Useful Resources

Method1: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions

Let us see the first method to find current week Thursday date of this week.

'Method 1: Current Thursday Date using Excel VBA Functions
Sub VBA_Find_Current_Thursday_Method1()
    
    Dim dCurrent_Thursday As Date

    dCurrent_Thursday = DateAdd("d", 1 - Weekday(Date, vbThursday), Date)

    MsgBox "If today's date is '" & Format(Now, "DD MMM YYYY") & "' then" & vbCrLf & _
    "Current Thursday Date is : " & Format(dCurrent_Thursday, "DD MMM YYYY"), vbInformation, "Current Week Thursday Date"
    
End Sub

Method2: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions

Here is the second method to find Current week Thursday date of this week.

'Method 2: Current Thursday Date using Excel VBA Functions
Sub VBA_Find_Current_Thursday_Method2()
    
    'Variable Declaration
    Dim dCurrent_Thursday As Date
    
    dCurrent_Thursday = Date - Weekday(Date, vbThursday) + 1

    MsgBox "If today's date is '" & Format(Now, "DD MMM YYYY") & "' then" & vbCrLf & _
    " Current Thursday Date is : " & Format(dCurrent_Thursday, "DD MMM YYYY"), vbInformation, "Current week Thursday Date"
    
End Sub

Method3: Get Current Week Thursday Date using VBA Functions

Let us see the third method to find Current week Thursday date of this week.

'Method 3: Current Thursday Date using Excel VBA Functions
Sub VBA_Find_Current_Thursday_Method3()
    
    'Variable Declaration
    Dim dCurrent_Thursday As Date
    
    dCurrent_Thursday = 5 - Weekday(Date) + Date

    MsgBox "If today's date is '" & Format(Now, "DD MMM YYYY") & "' then" & vbCrLf & _
    " Current Thursday Date is : " & Format(dCurrent_Thursday, "DD MMM YYYY"), vbInformation, "Current Week Thursday Date"
    
End Sub

Output screenshot: You can find following output screenshot of above specified macros.