See this:

http://mcgimpsey.com/excel/accumulator.html

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"paula" wrote in message
...
How can this be so hard? I want to keep a running attendence total. I
need
to come back to a cell each day and add another number to the one that is
already in the cell. I've tried several ways that I thought were supposed
to
work, to no avail. Can anyone help me?

thx.