Hi!

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Remove the can and change the obvious.

This can be done but I'll bet it's not going to "work" like you think.

The multiple dispatches of a particular unit can be dealt with but it's a
somewhat involved process.

Biff

"WLMPilot" wrote in message
...
I want to continue and yes, I understand the limitations of the cells and
the
problem with the same ambulance being dispatch several times. I want to
proceed and figure this out. The time indications I will adjust to 5 or
10
min increments. The basic problem is that I want compare time header and
see
if it falls in any of the ranges of the start/stop times. If so, then
fill
that cell with a color thus creating a bar graph.

"Biff" wrote:

Hi!

What you want to do is called a Gantt chart. Basically, it's fairly
simple
to do, however, you have a couple of problems!

If you want to chart the time range from 6:00 AM to 18:00 in increments
of 1
minute you will run out of cells (in a row - A1:IV1) at 10:15 AM. There
are
only 256 columns and you have 720 minutes in your time range.

Another issue is using TEXT to represent the times. It would be *MUCH*
easier to use normal time entries (any format).

Another issue, and this will be the most difficult to deal with, is, how
many times will a unit be dispatched? If a unit will only be dispatched
once
then it's really simple, no problem! If a unit might be dispatched 10
times,
ugh!

The basic logic is to compare the the TIME in row 1 to the start and stop
times of the dispatched unit.

Let me know how (if) you want to procede.

Biff

"WLMPilot" wrote in message
...
I work for an ambulance service. I wish to track, via a horizontal bar
graph, the call times. Here is how it would be set up:

Cells A1 through AZ1 (as example) equals times (text format to get 4
digits
for time without dropping leading zero), ie A1=0600, B1=0601, C1=0602,
D1=0603...AZ1=1800 (military time). I know I need more cells than
A1-AZ1,
but just an example

Cells A2 - A10 siginfiy which ambulance unit, ie A2=Medic 1, A3=Medic
2,
etc

Somewhere in the spreadsheet, I have a section that I enter the
dispatch
times and the end time of each call. Lets say column BA1:BA10 equals
start
times and BB1:BB10 equals stop times.

What I want to do is have the chart section created by the times 0600 -
1800
and ambulance number (Medic 1, Medic 2, etc) fill in appropriately the
timeslot for each call. So if Medic 1 was on a call from 0605 to 0700,
the
cells for Medic 1 under those times would fill in. I know this will be
a
conditional formatting, but not sure how to have those cells reference
the
start/stop array in order to know whether to fill in or not. Any cells
that
were not filled in would indicate when the unit was not on a call.

Below is an example of the above, but I use X's to represent the color
fill
for a cell

|0600|0601|.....| 0607| 0608| 0609|....| 0615| 0616|....|
0700|
Medic 1 | | | |XXXX|XXXX|XXXX|XX|XXXX|XXXX|XX|XXXX|

Any help greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Les