Today I want to share an Employee Shift Calendar Template with you. You can use this template to keep track of shift timings on various days.
See a demo of the template:
How does this template work?
This template uses a 3 main ideas,
- Excel formulas to create the calendar & checking for a day’s shift
- Conditional formatting to highlight a date in different color based on shift
- Scroll-bar form control to change the month
Here is a brief illustration explaining how this template works:
For more information on these techniques visit,
- Building a Calendar in Excel
- VLOOKUP formula – Introduction & uses
- Conditional formatting – Introduction & tutorial
- Form Controls in Excel – What are they and how to use them?
- Range lookup in Excel – how to write formulas?
Download Excel Template for Employee Shift Tracking & Shift Calendar
Download the Employee Shift Tracking Template
Go ahead and play with the file to learn more.
How to use this template?
I made a short video explaining this template and how to use it. See it below (or on our YouTube Channel).
Do you like this template?
I like the challenge of building this template. It nicely integrates 3 powerful ideas – date formulas, conditional formatting & form controls to create a concise tracker to manage employee shift data.
What about you? Did you like this template? How are you planning to use it? Please share using comments.
More templates & downloads
We got more templates to make you awesome!!! Go ahead and try these and impress someone.
- New year resolutions template in Excel
- Holiday (Vacation) Request Form Template
- Free 2011 Calendar Template (secret: works for any year too)
- Annual Goal Tracker Template
- Expense Trackers
- Project Management Templates [for sale]
PS: Thanks to Denice, who emailed me and asked for this template.
13 Responses to “Data Validation using an Unsorted column with Duplicate Entries as a Source List”
Pivot Table will involve manual intervention; hence I prefer to use the 'countif remove duplicate trick' along with 'text sorting formula trick; then using the offset with len to name the final range for validation.
if using the pivot table, set the sort to Ascending, so the list in the validation cell comes back alphabetically.
Hui: Brillant neat idea.
Vipul: I am intrigued by what you are saying. Please is it possible to show us how it can be done, because as u said Hui's method requires user intervention.
Thks to PHD and all
K
Table names dont work directly inside Data validation.
You will have to define a name and point it to the table name and then use the name inside validation
Eg MyClient : Refers to :=Table1[Client]
And then in the list validation say = MyClient
Kieranz,
Pls download the sample here http://cid-e98339d969073094.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/data-validation-unsorted-list-example.xls
Off course there are many other ways of doing the same and integrating the formulae in multiple columns into one.
Pls refer to column FGHI in that file. Cell G4 is where my validation is.
Vipul:
Many thks, will study it latter.
Rgds
K
[...] to chandoo for the idea of getting unique list using Pivot tables. What we do is that create a pivot table [...]
@Vipul:
Thanks, that was awesome! 🙂
@Playercharlie Happy to hear that 🙂
Great contribution, Hui. Solved a problem of many years!
Thanks to you, A LOT
Hi Hui,
Greeting
hope you are doing well.
I'm interested to send you a private vba excel file which i need to show detail of pivot in new workbook instead of showing in same workbook as new sheet.
Please contact me on muhammed.ye@gmail.com
Best Regards