Hi
use a pivot table for this. See:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Pivots/pivotstart.htm
http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot02.html
http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/excel-pivot-tables.htm

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

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Hi.

I got a spreadsheet wherby i put my invoices and products from my
supliers in.

Like
Supliers Product Total
Almond Fish 5000
Pierce Beef 2000
Almond Fish 5000
anton Beef 1000
peter Groceries 1000


Now i need to ectract the names to a sheet and total the purchases in
one colom
like

Suplier
Almond 10 000
Pierce 2000
anton 1000
peter 1000

This is to check if my recons is ok. I have a months purchace on one
sheet. There is alot of duplicate names and some is just single
entries. I can do the lookup funtion on the name, but i strugle to
ectract the names to show list with no duplicates. Be so kind to
share
what your lookup funtion might be as well

Thanks alot
Martin