Progress bar in spreadsheet?

RBear3

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Jun 18, 2008, 9:03:02 AM6/18/08

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I am creating a spreadsheet where I will have a long list of projects. One
column represents the completion percentage for the project. I'd like to
display this as a progress bar. If the project is 50% complete, I want the
left half of the cell to be colored in. If it is 75% complete, I want the
left 3/4 of the field to be filled in, etc.

I don't mind doing this manually if there is a way to do so, but I figured
there might be some type of control that can do this.

I have seen reports built in accounting packages and "dashboard" or "metric
tracking" applications that do similar visual representations for individual
line items on reports.

Thanks for your suggestions!!

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Andy Pope

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Jun 18, 2008, 9:32:10 AM6/18/08

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Hi,

You can not partial shade a single cell. What you can do is use multiple
cells with some conditional formatting.

Have a look at a recent post of my on another forum.
http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?t=646509&highlight=conditional

Cheers
Andy

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Jim Cone

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Jun 18, 2008, 9:42:07 AM6/18/08

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Another way...
You can use a formula to show a simple bar whose length varies
depending on the value in a cell.
If the value 28 is in cell B5, then try this formula in C5...
=REPT("n",B5/4).
Assign the Wingdings font to cell C5 and adjust the font size.
Customize as desired.
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Pete_UK

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Jun 18, 2008, 9:55:27 AM6/18/08

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You could achieve this in an adjacent column - assuming your
percentage is in A1, then put this in B1:

=REPT("|",100*A1)

Format the cell to, say, Red, and copy down.

You could apply conditional formatting to have, say, Blue with the
formula =A1>=0.75, and Green with =A1>=0.5 and Yellow with A1>=0.25,
so that the colour changes with progress of the project.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Andy Pope

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Jun 18, 2008, 10:23:39 AM6/18/08

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Seeing the other guys suggestions of using the REPT function I thought I
better clarify my statement, "You can not partial shade a single cell".
Using the built-in Cell Shading you can not partial shade..

Cheers
Andy

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RBear3

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Jun 18, 2008, 1:06:41 PM6/18/08

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Thanks! All of these suggestions are helpful.

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artemis

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Jun 18, 2008, 4:58:58 PM6/18/08

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You will need to set the column width to the 100% size. Also, you can
use Niagara Solid or Stencil fonts to create a solid line.

Ed Ferrero

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Jun 19, 2008, 5:25:47 AM6/19/08

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You have already had some good suggestions.

One of my old blog posts may be of help.

Look at http://www.edferrero.com/Blog/tabid/106/rssid/1/Default.aspx
and scroll about half way down - to More on Excel 2007 Conditional Formats
(and Excel 2003)

My blog is a little bit broken at the moment, sorry, but this should get you
there.

Ed Ferrero
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