How can cells be filled in to show quantities?

I want to graphically represent different periods of production time, i.e.
manufacture, change over, clean down, etc. by blocking out rows of cells.
e.g. convert 8.15,1.5,6.45,1 into a row showing 8.15 cells blocked in say
green, followed by 1.5 cells blocked in red, followed by 6.45 cells blocked
in green, followed by 1 cell blocked in black. It will be a rough cut
capacity planning spread sheet.

Hi,
could you not use a stacked bar graph instead?

HTH,

Greg.

By "blocking in" assume you mean using the fill color of the cells. But
blocking in say, 8.15 cells would not be possible this way: a cell's
background is either filled or not filled, you can't fill only part of the
cell this way. You could multiply your values by 100 to get whole numbers of
cells (e.g. 8.15 becomes 815), but you would have to make them very small to
fit on screen or a page of paper.

"edish" wrote:

> I want to graphically represent different periods of production time, i.e.
> manufacture, change over, clean down, etc. by blocking out rows of cells.
> e.g. convert 8.15,1.5,6.45,1 into a row showing 8.15 cells blocked in say
> green, followed by 1.5 cells blocked in red, followed by 6.45 cells blocked
> in green, followed by 1 cell blocked in black. It will be a rough cut
> capacity planning spread sheet.

You can't color portions of a cell. What you could do is use 4 cells per
block or 20 cells per block - what ever would meet the resolution you need
to attain (you can shrink the cells to make them more manageable). You
could then group them by removing outlines and putting a border around each
single unit time.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"edish" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I want to graphically represent different periods of production time, i.e.
> manufacture, change over, clean down, etc. by blocking out rows of cells.
> e.g. convert 8.15,1.5,6.45,1 into a row showing 8.15 cells blocked in say
> green, followed by 1.5 cells blocked in red, followed by 6.45 cells
blocked
> in green, followed by 1 cell blocked in black. It will be a rough cut
> capacity planning spread sheet.