Absolutely. I personally would write an Excel function in vba to do that . Charles Hoopers blog at hoopercharles.Wordpress.com has many bits of vba connecting to oracle on it. On 31 Mar 2011 16:41, "Jeffrey Beckstrom" <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Assuming I have a column of PO numbers in an Excel spreadsheet, is it possible to access Oracle for each of those numbers to retrieve additional information. The information retrieved for each PO number would go into another Excel cell. Can this be done? If so, looking for information on how. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113