if you use client id as a row field and as a data field set to count and
use a page field (Problem) to filter on crashes, then the number of rows the
table produces is the number of clients who have had crashes. This could be
gotten from the pivot table with =CountA(A4:A500) or similar.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"ngarutoa" wrote in message
m...
Thanks again to both of you

That gets the data into my pivot table. But may have not explained myself
properly re what I expect to report on. Pivot tables don't tell me how
many
unique people had crashes just the number of crashes. For example.

Date | Time | ID | Division | Consultant | Client ID | Problem |Solution

Client A345 had a crash which was fixed on 1/1/2005
Client A345 had a crash which was fixed on 15/2/2005.
Client ??? had a bug which was referred on 3/3/2005
Client ??? had a crash which was referred on 5/3/2005
client 7890 had a bug which was fixed on 6/3/2005

The report would show 2 Clients have had crashes not 3.

Again thanks for the help
ngautoa


If the imported data is placed in the same location, you can use a
dynamically defined named range

Name=List
RefersTo= =Offset(Sheet1!$A$1,0,0,CountA(Sheet1!$A:$A),10)
where list is then used as the source of your pivot table.

As an example.

"ngarutoa" wrote in message
m...
Hello Tom,

Thanks for that

I can use pivot tables but was hoping that there was a way that I
could

use

code because will be using a sheet where the data will be imported
and so the range will be dynamic not static. Will be utilising pivot
tables in

the

short term. Until I can figure a way to get the queries working.

Thanks again

You should be able to do this with a pivot table. No code or
formulas required.

If you are not familiar with pivot tables, see Debra Dalgleish's
site: http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

Look under P .

"ngarutoa" wrote in message
m...
Any suggestions for the following would be appreciated

Have a workbook with columns of data as follows:

Date | Time | ID | Division | Consultant | Client ID | Problem |
Solution

Each column can have duplicates. So a client can have been
contacted

multiple

times re the same problem by the same consultant, sometimes on the
same

day

Would like a code that

- can tell me how many and which clients have been contacted for
the

Problem

"Crash". So if client no 7589 has had a crash should be counted as
one for the specified date range

- can tell me how many contacts all client have had in a specified
date

range

by the Problem reported.

TIA
ngarutoa