OK... I can do that. But I don't understand why I have to go to that much trouble. In older versions of excel, I could create a pivot table that would just count the number of times something occurred in a field. It could be accomplished in just a couple of mouse clicks, and it didn't matter how the data was sorted. I probably can still do that, but the handy little dialog boxes that used to step you through the pivot table set up don't pop up anymore.