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Constructing a music staff (line notes)

In the attached file I am trying to use Excel to create a music staff (treble clef).

On sheet one, you will see that the notes are labeled with letters A-G on lines or on spaces. Spaces are not problem but I can't find a way to name letters on lines. I guess I can insert a textbox and put that over the line, but that is too tedious and not only that, I couldn't apply formulas to it (or formulas would be difficult).

So I'm trying to find a way where I can use every other row as a space and every other row as a line like I have on sheet 2. The problem here is trying to get the letters (yellow) on the 5 lines (thin row with black background) to appear big enough, that they fall outside of their cells, just like how the letters in cell B16 spill over the right edge of cell B16 and into neighboring columns. If there is a way to do this, then I can reduce the row height so that the row is so thin that it resembles a line, then turn the font color from yellow to black.
 

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I don't have an answer for placing the musical symbols directly on the line. Perhaps your present approach of placing a narrower row between two others will work. Not certain.

In any case, here is a link for creating the musical symbols on your sheet.

https://www.alt-codes.net/music_note_alt_codes.php

Not certain this works in Excel. May have to use Word
 
This is a chart with no data in front of the cells
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see attached

I don't think it is a great solution
 

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I've looked around the Net for a solution. Seems like Excel is not well suited for this purpose .. or at least, there aren't solutions to be found. So, either I'm using the wrong search terms or no one has solved this one previously. The OP may be breaking fresh ground for others with this project.
 
There are plenty of Music Staff's on the internet in Excel, Word etc but they are all setup for manual completion
 
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Here quick rough sample ...
You can use row 13's bordered cells.
You can write ONE note per cell.
You write notes with CAPTIAL letters and
... octave can handle be color (or what would be more useful :) )
> ideas? >
( Not tested with all [im]possible variations. )
 

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