Do you want to manage your staff’s allocations, shift schedules and view the results in a 4 week grid fashion (like below)? Then you are going to love my FREE Staff Roster Excel Template.
What can you do with this template?
- You can set up (up to 3) employees on shifts across a 4 week grid.
- See who is working on what days with staff pictures
- Manage employee’s time off and get alerted if you map someone on their day off.
- Look at staff allocation and workloads in a graph to see who is doing more and who is doing less work.
- Beautiful, simple and elegant worksheet to interactively manage the shift / roster.
Template Compatibility
This template is designed to work with modern Excel only. You need Excel 365 or Excel on Web to use this file.
How to use this template?
Step 1: Set up your employee data on the “employees” tab. You need the names & their pictures. When adding pictures, use insert picture > in-cell option to add them to the cells.
Step 2: Add any time-off or vacation information using the “Vacations” tab. Specify the employee name and date on which they are away.
Step 3: Set the start date for the roster, using the cell G3. Optionally, set the week start. Leave the value as 1 to start the week on Monday.
Once you change G3 value, the roster will display next 4 weeks worth of dates in the grid.
Step 4: Using the drop-down options in each day, map employees to the shift. You will get a warning icon if you either duplicate a name or if the employee is on vacation.
Step 5: Refer to the Workload graph on the right to see how busy your staff are. Use it to assign work fairly.
Step 6: That is all. There is no step 6. Happy Rostering.
Employee Roster Template -How to use it? [Video Tutorial]
Need help with rostering your staff or setting up employee schedules? Watch this tutorial to understand how I built this workbook and how to use it.
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6 Responses to “Make VBA String Comparisons Case In-sensitive [Quick Tip]”
Another way to test if Target.Value equal a string constant without regard to letter casing is to use the StrCmp function...
If StrComp("yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
' Do something
End If
That's a cool way to compare. i just converted my values to strings and used the above code to compare. worked nicely
Thanks!
In case that option just needs to be used for a single comparison, you could use
If InStr(1, "yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) Then
'do something
End If
as well.
Nice tip, thanks! I never even thought to think there might be an easier way.
Regarding Chronology of VB in general, the Option Compare pragma appears at the very beginning of VB, way before classes and objects arrive (with VB6 - around 2000).
Today StrComp() and InStr() function offers a more local way to compare, fully object, thus more consistent with object programming (even if VB is still interpreted).
My only question here is : "what if you want to binary compare locally with re-entering functions or concurrency (with events) ?". This will lead to a real nightmare and probably a big nasty mess to debug.
By the way, congrats for you Millions/month visits 🙂
This is nice article.
I used these examples to help my understanding. Even Instr is similar to Find but it can be case sensitive and also case insensitive.
Hope the examples below help.
Public Sub CaseSensitive2()
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub CaseSensitive()
If InStr("Look in this string", "look") = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub NotCaseSensitive()
'doing alot of case insensitive searching and whatnot, you can put Option Compare Text
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub