Jenn, I think your best bet would be to use Visio, in which you can
determine your layers and vary the colour transparency to illustrate your
schedule.

Gilles
"jenn" <jenn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I would like to put together a shared workbook to use as a room
> schedule. I want to have a grid with times on the left and room numbers at
> the top. I would put in the rooms that are automatically block for the
> person
> and when they have scheduled a patient (by placing the patient's initials)
> I
> want the block to change color. I could do a conditional format to change
> from blank to orange when the cell is no longer blank... but could I
> 'layer'
> it so that one layer could have the standard schedule and the 2nd layer
> could
> be what people have scheduled? Maybe there is a template out there?