I have used Excel to create templates for others to use. There are several sheets involved and values from one sheet feed into other sheets automatically. The sheets have many formulas including several layers of If, Countif, Vlookup, etc. I was learning while creating some of these and when I have to make edits, I have to be very careful to make changes in all of the right places. Someone asked me if I had considered using a pivot table for this work. I don't know anything about pivot tables and when it is appropriate to use them. Does anyone have a quick description or is there an article that you could recommend to help me decide if that is what I should be using? Thank you, Jenny ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************