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[Jason69]

Good Afternoon Everyone,
I'm having an issue I don't know how to fix, I have a spreadsheet for tracking how long a job is at a vendor. The way it works is, in the second tab, across the top there is the date starting at "TODAY()" and then adding up 1 day per column for 30 days. Along the side is all the different job numbers and operation numbers. I use "Index & MATCH" to find the number of days a process takes based on the Job number an operation number, that is displayed in the same row at the end of the 30 days. Here's the problem, in conditional formatting I have entered the formula "=COLUMN()<$AG4+3" to highlight the number of days out of the building but because the number is static, it always highlights the same number as shown in the "INDEX & MATCH" lookup. I need it to count down so tomorrow it will be 9 cells, the next day will have 8 cells and so on. Because I use "TODAY()" in the date, the calculation doesn't count down. Does anyone have any ideas that might help me?

Thanks very much for any help you can give.
Jason
T1000 Tracker3.xls

[mikeTRON]

Sorry I can't really follow what you are saying. Try again with a more straight forward sample?