HI Susan,

Glad this all made sense.

Take heart - you don't just "arrive" at the final formula (unless you've been doing this for a long time). The trick is to decide the destination and know the starting point. Then, place te starting formula in a computer column and keep adding the steps one by one. Placing each step in an adjacent column, refering back to the last step, can help with the trial and error process of building a complicated formula. Once you have it working in the final column, you can combine all the intermediate columns into a single formula.

But a note - you should decide whether my final comment about having the whole list of receipts in a View and using the ctrl-f Find in GridView to find the one you're looking for wouldn't be faster.
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Andrew Bates