Katherine, most likely the first occurence of the phase is the non-capital
occurence.

The simpliest solution is to put

Option Compare Text

at the top of your modules. This makes string comparisions case
insensitive.

Bob Flanagan
Macro Systems
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"Katherine" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a macro that creates a pivot table from a set of data on a
separate sheet in Excel. My problem is that during the pivot the case on the
header _sometimes_ gets changed. For example the data is 'EX-Examination'
but in the pivot table this is shown as 'EX-examination' .

This then means that my later macros can't then match up the 2 pieces of
data. Any ideas how to stop this happening?