Hey.. HYAAAAAAA bro! is there a place where you can learn more about macro programming? i use excel for 95% of work.. I have to all shots of thing in excel.. i have been going through online help and stuff to learn more about differnt functions and stuff.. i am good in java.. and have moderate programming skills in vb.. if you could share that .. this brother would be glad as my work would be lot easier... some of the things i do are.. doing matchs.. getting file content from differnt system to analyze certain fields. (this is often hard.. coz every line has differnt format and I will have to work around a lot to use advance filter... ) any suggestions..??