Build a comparison chart
I found a chart that I wanted to show you how to build.
The printable planting guide is found here. This is what the color means:
Light green : plants grow well together
Red : don´t plant together
Dark green : the combination helps bug control
Yellow : carrots will have good flavor but stunted roots.
Grey : beneficial to garden in general
Instructions
- Start typing the plants in cell A2 and below.
- Copy the plant names and right click on cell B1. Click "Paste Special...".
- Click "Transpose" and then click OK button.
- Select and right click on cell range B1:AE1.
- Click "Format Cells...".
- Go to tab "Alignment".
- Change "Orientation" to 90 degrees. Click OK.
- Select column B:AE and change column width to 20px.
- Type 1 for green, 2 for red, 3 for grey, 4 for dark green and 5 for yellow in cell range B2:AE31
- Select cell range B2:AE31 and go to tab "Home" on the ribbon.
- Click "Conditional formatting" button.
- Click "New Rule.."
- Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
- Type =B2=1
- Click "Format..." button
- Go to tab "Fill"
- Pick a color
- Click OK button twice
- Repeat step 11 - 18 for 2, 3, 4 and 5 but the formulas become =B2=2, =B2=3 , B2=4 and B2=5 and the fill colors are different.
- Hide the numbers in cell range B2:AE31. Select B2:AE31 and press CTRL + 1. Click "Custom" category. Type ;;; click OK.
- Apply borders. Select A1:AE31. Go to "Home" tab on the ribbon. Click "Borders" and select "All Borders".
You could color each cell manually, but in my opinion building this chart is a lot easier using numbers in cells.
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