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    Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    I've been testing out formulas and reading forums all day to try and figure out how to build a pallet space calculator.
    I'm not an intermediate excel user by any means unfortunately.

    I enter in the length, width, height and weight of the item being freighted. I would then like the spreadsheet to calculate how many pallet spaces on the truck this would use based on my standard pallet measurements and disregarding the height of the freight.

    For example a piece of machinery is being freighted. 2.7m long and 2m wide. The height won't matter as it is machinery craned on. How many pallet spaces did it take up to the nearest 0.25m

    I then want to be able to identify which is greater. The amount of pallet spaces required for the item or the weight based on 1000kg per pallet space.
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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    Might have to take this in stages...

    1st part to see how many pallets...
    =ROUNDUP((A8*B8)/($B$4*$C$4),0.25)
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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    If I understood something..

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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    FDibbons - That formula worked great. Thank you. But unfortunately it isn't breaking it down into quarters.
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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    Try the CEILING() function rather than the ROUNDUP() function. ROUNDUP() rounds to a decimal place (0.25 in the 2nd argument gets truncated to 0, so it rounds to the nearest integer). CEILING() rounds up to the nearest multiple (0.25 in the second argument).
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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    Ceiling function worked perfect! Thank you!

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    Re: Formula to read dimensions of freight to calculate how many pallet spaces

    Happy to help

    MrShorty thanks for the assist

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