Hi,
I've been search groups and have spent a day now trying to code this
myself but I'm not getting very far due to my lack of VBA knowledge.

I have a problem in that we have an excel spreadsheet that contains a
lot of information, a spreadsheet with around 50 columns and over
20000 rows. I've been asked to add an aditional column to these 20000
rows with the implementation date- (Each row has a unique item ID). I
have obtained the dates, and they are all contained in reports (theres
around 50 of them in total), which are also excel spreadsheets, these
spreadsheets contain the corresponding item ID, but there are multiple
lines with the same item ID (different dates for various mile stones),
where this happens i need the earliest date (this is always the
implementation date).

So what I'd ideally like to be able to achieve is run a macro that
could jump into each of the reports, find the rows with the
corresponding item ID, get the earliest date in the date column,
create a new column on the main spreadsheet and copy this date into
it, against the respective item ID.

Is this an achievable solution with VBA?

Many Thanks!!
Paul.