Hi guys,

I am hoping that some one here can help me,

First off i have a very, very basic knowledge of excel and vba so please
bear with me and i will try to describe what it is i am trying to do as best
as possible.

I have a worksheet that has a list of equipment down the left hand side and
week numbers going across the top 1 to 52. The spreadsheet is essentially a
plan of what equipment is being used by certain processes, represented by
coloured or patterned formatted cells in the weeks they will be in use. Kind
of like a gantt chart. Currently i have a spreadsheet were i copy the current
plans colours across to a template spreadsheet to tidy it up. I need to merge
and centre justify the cells in order to give each block a process name.

I am trying to go from left to right from weeks 1 to 52 and merge any cell
of the same colour or pattern if they are situated in direct proximity to one
another. I would also like to merge top to bottom as well as some processes
use multiple sets of equipment so would require to be merged across rows as
well.

I have tried to figure this out by recording macros, but they are massive
and don't work quite right. Obviously some kind of loops would be more
efficient. But i have no knowledge of how these things work really.

Thanks.

Gary.