Highlighting columns based on day of week

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I am trying to do conditional formatting on the below example.

I would like to highlight certain columns/cells based on the day of the week. For example, if the date is a Tuesday, then I would like the WeHo, Sunset, WW, MB, Irvine, BrentW, Cienega and Hun B columns highlighted. If possible I would like to base the day of the week off the pre-existing date in cell A2, since we do our work one day before hand (working on a Monday, but cells are highlighted as if the actual date was Tuesday).

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What did you try? That sounds like a pretty straightforward conditional formatting. What hasn't worked? – BruceWayne
=WEEKDAY($A$2)+1 = 2 The number is the day of the week 1 = Sunday,7=Saturday. – Scott Craner

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Assuming that the date in A2 is a Monday and you want B2:B20, E2:E20, J2:K20, Q2:Q20 and T2:U20 to be formatted then please select those ranges (with Ctrl depressed) and HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true:: 

=WEEKDAY($A$2)=2

Format..., select your choice of formatting, OK, OK.

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Sounds like you want to use formula conditional formatting. Basically, go to the formula conditional formatting and =$A$2="Tuesday" then click ok and make the "apply to" apply to the column you want highlighted when A2 says it's a Tuesday.