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Can Excel do this?
You've said it's a school project and you want to know if what you want to create is even possible in Excel. Right?
The answer to that question is "Yes, it is possible."
It probably would take a bit more explanation of what you want to do, but Excel is very good at that kind of thing. So since it's a project for school, have at it. I'll point you in the direction of the many functions that enable one to look things up from a table. And I'd suggest searching (probably on Google) for how those work.... there are in Excel several ways to accomplish it.
Or were you expecting somebody here to do your homework for you?
mathetes Thank you, sir. I have used the functions you provided, as well as I got help from exceljet. In cell Q13 I have created a function which gives H or 0, depending on the number of day from WEEKDAY and hour. I have then created a new sheet with 31 days of this function. Then, for every shift in K, L, M, N I entered IF statement, which depending on the outcome of the function in new sheet either counts the number of hours in each shift or just gives 0,00 and continues.
It works to a point in which two shifts collide with each other. When it is Friday >=17:00 up until Monday <=06:00 it works really good, however, when an employee works for example Monday 04:00 until Monday 12:00 it gives 6hrs in K, 0,08hrs in H, and loses the rest of the time. Did I overdid it to a point where it just simply can't work or is it fixable?
I am really grateful for your help, if I am abusing your free time please just let me know.
Also, it is difficult for me to explain what I did and what I mean because English is not my main language, therefore I am sorry if you can't understand me clearly.
You are explaining yourself very well in English.
You might (this is a guess on my part) benefit from the IFS function...take a look at it on exceljet. It sometimes is easier than nesting IF within IF within IF.
I will not be able to take a close look until much later today, I'm afraid. I had wondered about that matter of crossing shift boundaries, but it did seem as if you had it resolved in your earlier version. So keep working....I'll look later, but maybe you will be able to do it on your own. That's always more satisfying.