I trying to sort out a small spreadsheet for a charities collections and want
to keep as simple as possible as the users are novices. They are using Excel
2000.

I set up a sheet that worked, but of necessity contained 26 columns ( one
for each collectors takings) spread over 200 rows (Theoretically 366 max).
In practical terms it wasn't user friendly.

In essence it would be better to need only to enter a date, a name and a sum
of money in 3 columns and have totals calculated in secondary sheets.

My guess is that in order to get meaningful monthly totals against each of
the 26 collectors will require some VBA code to pull that data into separate
sheet.

Can anyone guide me on data manipulation. I need to identify all instances
of each of the names and total each name's takings for each calender month.

thanks

Pete