Subject: excel problem I have a worksheet using 35 rows covering ages 15-49 of women. In the second column is the number of women at each age, in the third column is the number of women who died of a particular cause at each age , and in the fourth column is the exposure that women of each age will have been exposed to . the final column is the calculation (dead/exposure) *10000 It is possible in the column of dead women that the re are no dead women of a certain age, what I want to be able to do is to A duplicate the column B infill the 0 with the value from its nearest neighbour , C calculate the new value as (((dead at age?+ dead at age?) / (exposure at age ? + exposure sat age?))/2)*10000 Is it possible to automate this or would I have to do each stage manually Thanks ann Ann E Fitzmaurice Medical Statistician Immpact University of Aberdeen Health Sciences Building Foresterhill Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD Scotland Tel: +44 (0)1224 553876 Fax: +44 (0)1224 555704 Email: <mailto:a.e.fitzmaurice@xxxxxxxxxx> a.e.fitzmaurice@xxxxxxxxxx ************************************************************* 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, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************