Roster: calculate the work days between 2 off days if it is more than 5 days.

Hello, I am trying to make roster using excel. I need the formula that helps me calculate the work days between 2 off days if it is more than 5 days. Basically work day between off should not be more than 5. If it's more than 5 it will highlight to me. I tried few formulas but it did not work. Off days are labelled as OFF in roster. Any help will be welcomed.


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If I did, I would have offered one.

There are instructions at the top of the page explaining how to attach your sample workbook.

Take a look at the yellow highlighting in rows 9 to 21.

Is that close to what you want?

All I an doing for each row is looking back 5 columns and highlighting the cell if there are no "OFF" entries in that range.

The CF formula is:

Formula:

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See the attached update to your workbook.

Let us know what you think.

If you just highlight col-AG then that leaves you searching the entire month for the source of the "too many consecutive work days" problem. That's OK?

I'm actually having a hard time finding a CF formula that just does a summary column - I'll keep trying. Meanwhile, if you could turn the current highlighting on or off would that help? If so, replace the CF formula with:

Formula:

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and set cell AI7 to "yes" or "no" to turn highlighting on or off.

Re: your post #9, I don't understand - that's exactly what my current CF formula is doing. What am I missing?

You could use this as a CF rule if you want a flag in AG:

=(MAX(FREQUENCY(COLUMN($E9:$AF9),($E9:$AF9="OFF")*COLUMN($E9:$AF9)))-1)>5

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