Hi Gord,

I agree with you entirely. So does John McGimpsey, apparently; this is what he states on his site:

<I dislike accumulators on a spreadsheet, primarily because they retain no history - if an error is made, it may be impossible to
track down in an accumulator, where if the numbers were entered sequentially in a column of cells, they could be examined and
corrected

But the question keeps coming back in the newsgroups!

Since John's warning is included in the link, I just give the link.

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ...
| Dan
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| As Niek points out...it can be done.
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| But what happens if you make a mistake in data entry?
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| You have no "paper trail" to follow to troubleshoot entries.
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| Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
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| On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:46:02 -0800, Dan wrote:
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| All -
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| I am trying to figure out how to do a accumulator to an existing report that
| has numbers in it already and want to update from those numbers...
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| example [3456] [2123] updater cell [412]
| the two above change as I update the other from this point....
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| any help is greatly appreicated.....thanks
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| V/r MSgt ANDERS
| OEF Afghanistan
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