Makes perfect sense.
Row 1 is your headings only (use Alt+Enter to enter a paragraph return if
your heading needs to be 2 lines).
You can use data validation to choose the meeting type in column A (select
A2 to A65536):
See:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm
Then, put Date in column B. (select the column and Format--Cells and choose
a date format.)
Enter all your current meetings.
Use Autofilter when you only want to see a certain meeting type:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm
Use Subtotals to "count" the meetings by meeting type:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm
That should give you a really good start. :)
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"craezer" wrote in message
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This is probably something simple, but I'm such a novice I don't know
where
to start. I want to track my attendance at monthly meetings. I have five
defined (don't know if that's the right term) plus numerous miscellaneous
meetings I attend every month. I would like to be able to track them by
date
and category and see a running total of each category for the year. I
would
also like to be able to integrate new categories of meetings in as they
come
along.

I don't know if this is enough info to help me get started or if this
question even makes sense, but thanks for your help!