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Giving a colored cell a numerical value
Could you attach a small sample workbook demonstrating the problem (without sensitive data), or if that is not possible, make it available through OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or similar?
- TuanDApr 15, 2025Copper Contributor
These are just metrics, not sensitive information. But this is the dataset I was given and am working with.
For example, Lines 16-19 (four rows), one of the column will be colored based on today's patient volumes. In this example, I need B16=1, E17=4, E18=4, and B19=1, (because I need green=1, orange=2, yellow=3, red=4).
So then to tally the colored values, it should be 10.
As I type this, it sounds confusing, but basically I need the color to equal a numerical value, if that makes any sense.
- HansVogelaarApr 15, 2025MVP
Have B16, E17 etc. been colored manually or do you use conditional formatting rules to color them?
- TuanDApr 15, 2025Copper Contributor
They are colored manually. Our units on the hospital floors report daily during our huddles, reason why it’s colored manually.