You could achieve this in an adjacent column - assuming your
percentage is in A1, then put this in B1:

=REPT("|",100*A1)

Format the cell to, say, Red, and copy down.

You could apply conditional formatting to have, say, Blue with the
formula =A1=0.75, and Green with =A1=0.5 and Yellow with A1=0.25,
so that the colour changes with progress of the project.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jun 18, 2:03*pm, "RBear3" wrote:
I am creating a spreadsheet where I will have a long list of projects. *One
column represents the completion percentage for the project. *I'd like to
display this as a progress bar. *If the project is 50% complete, I want the
left half of the cell to be colored in. *If it is 75% complete, I want the
left 3/4 of the field to be filled in, etc.

I don't mind doing this manually if there is a way to do so, but I figured
there might be some type of control that can do this.

I have seen reports built in accounting packages and "dashboard" or "metric
tracking" applications that do similar visual representations for individual
line items on reports.

Thanks for your suggestions!!

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RBear3
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