I have a spreadsheet that I use to track manpower usage. I have been asked to
reduce hours or days worked by 3% on average per month and not to exceed or
fall short of the goal (within reason). I must also be able to track the
reduction for reporting purposes. Since I have to reduce by 3% for the entire
month and not per day it gives me flexability to work people at various
shifts or hours ie 3, 8 hour shifts instead of 2.4 hours per day over 10
days. I have an entry sheet for each day of the month that I enter the hours
of reduction that links to the next day's sheet (31 sheets in all). To use
the flexability, some days I may be able to achieve a 10% reduction while
other days it may be 0%. I need to somehow add all of the daily percentages
or affected hours from sheet to sheet and arrive at a realtime monthly
average that displays on the top of every sheet letting me know when I have
achieved 3% and when I fall short and I have to plan to defer work to meet
the 3% goal. My problem (among many others) is do I start with all of the
possible hours in a month and have the calculation for each day adding from
page to page the hours saved totaling those hours on the last page to show a
running total to claculate the percentage? I know I can link the value to
display on each sheet. And if I do this will it be accurate or do I have to
divide the result by say 30 days or variation of days? I have tried to add
all of the saved or redirected hours from day to day and divided by to total
available month to date hours but I seem to be doubling the percentage each
day. I then thought I have to divide that percentage by the amount of days
tracked but it does not seem acurate either. Please advise.


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Thanks,

Don