mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on Tuesday February 15 2005 at 20:04 +0000 wrote: >Is this an access form/inventory control type database? If so, what is >your table structure, where your value for items in stock is stored? >There >are several good discussions on inventory databases located at >http://www.utteraccess.com/, by typing the keyword "inventory". Please >let >us know what software you're working with and more about your data, thank >you, Cathy Thanks for the response. No this is a simple Excel sheet. Basically users choose an item from a validated list. This then uses a vlookup to find the number in stock. The user can specify how many they want and all I want to do is just to decrease the number in stock by the number required. I thought it might be something as simple as: =vlookup($B$4,vl_stock,2)-$B$6 etc but this reduces all of the numbers on the stock list for all items. I am sure there is a simple explanation but I spent a day looking for a solution on the net yesterday and got nowhere. Would appreciate any insights you might have. Colin Colin Coles ICT Development Manager John Cabot City Technology College Tel 0117 976 3000 Ext 2111 Mobile: 07734395347 E Mail ccoles@xxxxxxxxxxx Alt cd.coles@xxxxxxxx ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************