Have you tried "Track Changes"?...this will make the workbook a shared workbook and changes will be highlighted in a different color. Tell your co-worker to go to Tools>Track Changes>Highlight Changes...put a check in the box that says "Track changes while editing"...now when she sends you the file, her changes will be highlighted and you can choose to accept or reject those changes If you've never used Track Changes before, try searching Excel's Help files for "track changes" and come back to us if you have any specific questions on how to turn it on and off and how it works, etc. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LEXI Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:49 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: excell help to highlight I know next to almost nothing about excel so this isn't making sense for me Do I create another column with the current date for all items and ? what is a date update field? I'll refresh .....work sends me an excell spreadsheet with information on area, address, rent amount, date available, leased etc Not every property has changes daily....some will only have a rental change others will be leased and others yete will have a new availability date I need the items that my co worker changes ie: if she ups or lowers the rent on a given property or something becomes leased or something becomes available those items only need to be highlighted for me to quick view and make updates to the website and other advertising venues. Currently she has to hand color each seperate item and usually forgets to color code so i'm stuck looking through many many properties ie: going through each one and checking it against the web page to see if any changes are needed.....if the updated items are highlighted it would be alot less work Can anyone help me step by step to figure out how to do this?? Lexi At 07:59 AM 8/28/2003, you wrote: >You could try to make your changes stand out using conditional >formatting. I would add a date update field and use that for the >condition. /g > >-----Original Message----- >From: LEXI [mailto:farneys@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20 >Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:50 AM >To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [mso] Re: Office Advice ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************