Highlighting Cells Between Dates

[ajreed]

I am designing a calendar for my department. I have dates set up incrementing by week along the top, with an event and start and end dates along the side. I have it set up to check if the start date is greater than the beginning of the week, and less than the beginning of the following week. If true, the date (DD) is shown in the corresponding cell. The end date is set up to display the same way. What I want to add next is a sort of a gantt chart feature. Basically, I want to highlight the cells between the start and end dates to be able to visualize the amount of time spent on a project. Does anyone have an idea of how I can accomplish this? I have pasted a small excerpt from my calendar to give a better understanding, hopefully the formatting matches up. Thanks!


[TABLE="width: 479"]
<colgroup><col><col><col><col span="8"></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]Start Date[/TD]
[TD]Target Date[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]3-Sep[/TD]
[TD]10-Sep[/TD]
[TD]17-Sep[/TD]
[TD]24-Sep[/TD]
[TD]1-Oct[/TD]
[TD]8-Oct[/TD]
[TD]15-Oct[/TD]
[TD]22-Oct[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9/3/2018[/TD]
[TD]9/17/2018[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]03[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9/13/2018[/TD]
[TD]10/1/2018[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]01[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]9/19/2018[/TD]
[TD]10/15/2018[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]19[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]10/3/2018[/TD]
[TD]10/20/2018[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]03[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[TD="align: right"]20[/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[Peter_SSs]

Welcome to the MrExcel board!

If I have understood correctly, you can do this with Excel's standard Conditional Formatting. Post back if you need more specific instructions about how to set it up and tell us what columns the Start date & Target Date are in and what columns contain the Date headings.
For my set-up, select C2:Jxx and apply the CF (formulas) shown.

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
1	Start Date	Target Date	3-Sep	10-Sep	17-Sep	24-Sep	1-Oct	8-Oct	15-Oct	22-Oct
2	3/09/2018	17/09/2018	3		17
3	13/09/2018	10/01/2018		13			1
4	19/09/2018	15/10/2018			19				15
5	3/10/2018	20/10/2018					3		20
Highlight Date Range

Cells with Conditional Formatting
Cell	Condition		Cell Format	Stop If True
C2	1. / Formula is =AND(COUNT($C2:C2),COUNT(C2:$J2))	Abc