Excel Shift Calendar - IF / Match / Lookup

[Nick Jackson]

Hi All,

I’m a relative excel beginner so wasn’t sure what formula/a would work best to achieve what I’m attempting to build. Once I have the basics I should be able to adjust to what I need.

Basically I need to create a shift calendar for staff to have access to four weeks of shifts. So the request for support comes in two parts.

I need a formula that looks for a name and date in a separate main workbook (holiday book) and provides a match in the raw data sheet I have set up.

Part Two would be how to create a drop down list with all names. When you pick your name from the drop down list I would like a four week template to return the actual shifts that person is working so imagine Mon, Tues , Weds going across the top and week 1 , 2, 3 going down. I need the formula to look at the raw data sheet and return for the date the shift they should be working on each day and the template to auto populate for the four weeks.

Kind Regards

[AliGW]

Welcome to the forum!

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? We are not able to work with or manipulate a picture of one and nobody wants to have to recreate your data from scratch.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired results are also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential data is removed or replaced with dummy data first (e.g. names, addresses, E-mails, etc.).

4. Try to avoid using merged cells as they cause lots of problems.

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment, so to attach an Excel file you have to do the following: just before posting, scroll down to Go Advanced and then scroll down to Manage Attachments. Now follow the instructions at the top of that screen.

Please pay particular attention to point 2 (above): without an idea of your intended outcomes, it is often very difficult to offer appropriate advice.