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I really need help. Need a formula. Need it yesterday.
I'm new to Excel formulas, and I need one that is well beyond me at this
stage, but probably a piece of cake for an Excel Wizard. I have a modest staffing schedule on Excel that shows several teams of employees with staffing requirements that may change every thirty minutes, as does the number of employees available in each team. I have the spreadsheet linked to another that provides the total, overall staffing requirement for each half hour, so that the total staffing requirement for each half-hour automatically loads to my staffing schedule. Likewise with the total number of employees available for each half-hour and the number of employees available in each team for each half-hour. Currently, that leaves me with the problem manually of assigning the number of employees required to be working in each team, based on their availability, for each half-hour. This task can take me hours to complete as I have other things to do at the same time. An associate produced a formula that works on a percentage methodology, but the problem is that it results in figures such as 7.2, instead of a whole number, so the entire sheet has to be reviewed and manually corrected. At that point, I'm just as well off doing it manually. I need a formula that will calculate the staffing requirement for each team for each half-hour based on employee availability. It should not staff above the number of available employees each team, nor staff more than the total required of all the teams combined. I know that my description would do little to help me picture the situation. So, if you're in a position to rescue a fellow American, I'd be glad to phone, and/or send a copy of the spreadsheet, and can offer some modest financial compensation for the effort. |
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I really need help. Need a formula. Need it yesterday.
I could be misunderstanding, but it sounds as simple as using the ROUNDDOWN
function...? If you click "Insert" - "Function", look in Math & Trig, go to ROUNDDOWN. I think that is a very simple way to fix your problem, if I read that right. "Dennis" wrote: I'm new to Excel formulas, and I need one that is well beyond me at this stage, but probably a piece of cake for an Excel Wizard. I have a modest staffing schedule on Excel that shows several teams of employees with staffing requirements that may change every thirty minutes, as does the number of employees available in each team. I have the spreadsheet linked to another that provides the total, overall staffing requirement for each half hour, so that the total staffing requirement for each half-hour automatically loads to my staffing schedule. Likewise with the total number of employees available for each half-hour and the number of employees available in each team for each half-hour. Currently, that leaves me with the problem manually of assigning the number of employees required to be working in each team, based on their availability, for each half-hour. This task can take me hours to complete as I have other things to do at the same time. An associate produced a formula that works on a percentage methodology, but the problem is that it results in figures such as 7.2, instead of a whole number, so the entire sheet has to be reviewed and manually corrected. At that point, I'm just as well off doing it manually. I need a formula that will calculate the staffing requirement for each team for each half-hour based on employee availability. It should not staff above the number of available employees each team, nor staff more than the total required of all the teams combined. I know that my description would do little to help me picture the situation. So, if you're in a position to rescue a fellow American, I'd be glad to phone, and/or send a copy of the spreadsheet, and can offer some modest financial compensation for the effort. |
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