Robert: ... Thank you, I believe this is going to work, by jove! LOL - it'll work PROVIDED your colour names are all entered exactly the same - selected from a drop-down menu or otherwise. Don't forget (as I did the first time I did something similar) that as soon as you sort on your serial number again (col A) it'll all change unless you use ' Paste Special, Values ' to retain the values on each row! Andrew ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************