Newbie desperate for Timesheet help

[JMo]

Hello to all, and I'm glad I googled into this site!

I'm very much an Excel newbie, and I've been charged with creating a timesheet for our employees. I'm not even sure where to start!! I've searched this site and seen several posts with specific questions related to timesheets, but I was hoping someone could point me in a more general direction...a good tutorial or resource? Something like that? I'm sweating it over here!

Thanks in advance for any help...

[willlobb]

what needs to go on the timesheet?

[lenze]

This link might get you started.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/overtime.htm

[JMo]

Hope I'm replying correctly....

The timesheet would include these columns:

Time in
Time taken for lunch (e.g., 1 hour)
Time out
Flex time used
Overtime worked
Leave taken

So, it would be:
Time out-Time in, less the time taken for lunch, plus any Flex hours used/overtime worked/leave taken to give a daily total.

I'm struggling with the formatting, as well as the actual calculations.

Hope this makes things clearer. Thanks so much!

[scwyj]

Try doing a search on this website and put Timesheet in the search criteria box. It returns a lot of previous posts on this issue.

sc

[JMo]

I have searched the site, and read the resulting posts...most of them are either more specific, different issues, or more advanced than what I need. Thanks, though.

As for the link, it was very helpful, but there's one issue: I have been told that my employer does not want the employees to have to enter "military" time. If they could use military time, I could figure out the calculations...simple math. But, they want the employees to enter "regular" time.

Again, thanks for all your (speedy) help!

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Julia

[ This Message was edited by: JMo on 2002-04-04 11:05 ]

[Von Pookie]

On 2002-04-04 11:03, JMo wrote:
As for the link, it was very helpful, but there's one issue: I have been told that my employer does not want the employees to have to enter "military" time. If they could use military time, I could figure out the calculations...simple math. But, they want the employees to enter "regular" time.

Hi Julia!

I made a little timesheet for myself using the code from that link. I just formatted the cells to display "regular" time (for example, I enter 7:30 into the cell)

The only thing with that is that you have to make sure the times display the correct time of day (AM or PM). Sometimes, it shows what I want, other times, it automatically will say 4:15 am, for example.

Hope this helps,

[JMo]

Thanks to all...works like a charm!