>>Hi Hilmar
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>>Forgive me for approaching you direct but I'm so tired now and I need to get this done before goiig on holiday. As you can see, Sergey's already given me some advice but, as you're the excel auto guru (:-)...
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>Not really, although I did write an introductory article. I would say, Tamar is the Automation guro.

Yes I had your doc, but on my home pc from when I worked at home, and it was very helpful

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> I thought of going straight to you, just in case you haven't noticed this post.
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>Can you give the number of the original thread?

Doesn't realluy matter - it's all below, so far.
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>>>>Phew! I've just about finished my panic report. Now I've exported it to Excel. I know how to automate the s/s but I just need to know how to:
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>>>>1) remove duplicate cells' text, e.g. I don't want a column of bus operators all the same, but when the op. changes I want the name to show.
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>>>I dunno if there's simple way, but you can loop through the column and blank out duplicate text. You can do that in your cursor before export.
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>>>>2) reorder the columns. The cursor is not in the same L-R field order as the format of my report but I'd like to get the s/s to resemble it as much a sposs.
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>>>You can run one more select before export to put columns in proper order.
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>>OK
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>>I need to sub-total and total some columns. Is there a way to automate that?
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>I usually use the sum() formula for this. Did you try saving a macro with Excel, creating the formula, and looking at the resulting VBA code?
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>It is not quite clear to me, in this message, what you have already achieved, and what you are missing.

I've done as far as exporting the table to excel. I know, from your intro, how to rename cells (e.g. to give better column headings) but I need to:

1) remove duplicate cells' text, e.g. I don't want a column of bus operators all the same, but when the op. changes I want the name to show.

2) reorder the columns. The cursor is not in the same L-R field order as the format of my report but I'd like to get the s/s to resemble it as much as poss.

3) provide totals at route, operator and grand levels

4) slot in an extra row, at top, with a heading.

Cheers

Terry