I am familiar with the count function in Excel 2000, but I have a grid for tracking purposes which changes month to month. The basic pattern of the grid remains the same so I have it setup so I can copy and paste certain sections of the grid and no reformatting is necessary, so that solved one problem, but to explain how the grid looks, it looks similar to a large crossword puzzle. Some cells have the default white background (which are NOT locked) and others have a gray background (which ARE locked). On a per row basis I need to know how many white background UNlocked cells are in each row. If someone can offer some advise on how to do this without physically counting them or having to manually populate each cell with a character it would be great. Thanks Don Ps. I took Linda's advise and bought the Outlook spam filter, seems to be working great so far. I did enter in the form where I heard about it. Thanks Again Don --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Road Runner's Web-based e-mail. ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************