You could try Power Pivot to merge and sort your various files into one pivot table or chart.
~Susan From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jorge Marques Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:02 AM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Help on a simple question I have a doubt dear friends, i have 3 reports i receive each month, so every month i have to to an overall report of the 3 like a database, but the format of the data isn´t equal and doesn´t allow to do a pivot table, my idea was to create 3 pivotreports (by putting in pivot format and linking them to the original) each with the 12 months and in the final workbook i can see all information, my difficulty is how when i receive the monthly report i send the data to the pivot table created for that report to the respective month, each pivot table has 10.000 lines, if i put each monthly report in a separate folder and link them tom the pivot, will it be ok?. Thank you very much, Best Regards, Jorge Marques -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Some important links for excel users: 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : http://twitter.com/exceldailytip 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Like our page on facebook , Just follow below link http://www.facebook.com/discussexcel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : http://twitter.com/exceldailytip 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Like our page on facebook , Just follow below link http://www.facebook.com/discussexcel