Frank,

If you want to use Excel as a database, then enter your data into a
database: one sheet of one workbook, with all the information that you need,
and all the fields by which you you want to isolate data. (Excel isn't a
relational database, but you can use multiple databases if the information
isn't well related, like one for personal data like addresses, and another
for your actual data) Then you can use data filters to show / extract the
information that you want. Forget about using multiple workbooks - they
just make things harder.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP



"Frank Rudd via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
...

Hello. I need to be able to access data from Jan. '04 into the future from
a
db that I'm trying to create. The data will feed to this sheet via links
to
other workbooks that have already been created (from Aug '05 forward.
Prior
months will just be put into the cells). I've left space for 55 people in
the
workbooks that are feeding this sheet, but the number of people is rarely
above 45, and has been as low as 35. I would like to be able to have a
UserForm link to this data and be able to pull information on individuals
by
month or range of months. For example, if I want to know how John Doe is
doing over the last 12 months I could enter or choose from a list August
2004
to July 2005 and get all the data broken out just for him. This may grow
by
20-30 people a year, as people come and go.

I realize that Excel isn't really a database, but I'm not allowed to use
Access here, and I'm more comfortable with Excel anyway. Can anybody point
me
in the right direction?

Thanks,


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