[legend1983]

Im currently trying to produce a register for a kids activity centre on Excel.
Im wondering if theres any way i can get some form of error message or automatic notification if a kid has missed 2 concecutive sessions?

Please Help!!! lol

[slurpee55]

First, welcome to the forum!
It is not hard to do, but we would need more information on the worksheet.
You could use VBA or a macro to have a message pop up, you could use data validation to do the same thing, or you could use conditional formatting to change the color of the child's name (or the row or whatever) based on that problem.

[legend1983]

hey, thanx for the rapid response. lol

i was under the impression it would be easy until i tried it. lol

the sheet is basically a list of names in a column on the left and then each column to the right of that is a date column which will have some form of code or mark (undecided on this yet, but a 1 or 0 or similar) to signify present or absent.

[slurpee55]

This isn't very sophisticated (on the other hand, it is 5:30 in the morning here ) but it works.
I left the columns to the right visible, but in use I would hide them. In practical use, they could be put at the far right of the worksheet or even on another worksheet in the same workbook. All they do is see if the combination of two days is a blank - if so, the number 1 is entered, if not, a 0 is entered.

[legend1983]

Thats pretty much what im looking for. Thats great.
Id got as far as the if functions but i didnt know how to set the conditional formatting to the entire row rather than the cell.

How do you do that bit???

[legend1983]

Ignore the last comment, ive just had a look at the formula and figured it out.

Thanks for the help

[bomb #21]

I see this is Solved, so this is just for fun (AKA me being contrary ).

The key for this is "consecutive" meaning adjacent, right? I reckon:

=FIND("$$$",$B2&"$"&$C2&"$"&$D2&"$"&$E2&"$"&$F2&"$"&$G2&"$")

will only find a "$$$" substring when 2 adjacent cells are blank.

Thus you could ditch the helper columns/formulas for one straight CF formula:

=FIND("$$$",$B2&"$"&$C2&"$"&$D2&"$"&$E2&"$"&$F2&"$"&$G2&"$")>0

[slurpee55]

Slick thinking, bomb! Interesting use of FIND().