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    I have been using Excel to provide monthly cashflow analysis for a holiday property business. It shows income and expenditure under various categories with monthly and year-to-date totals. The workbook comprises 12 worksheets, one for each month. Until now everything has been analysed across the whole business.
    I now need to provide separate analyses for each of the four properties, plus the common expenses and a monthly summary of all five sheets. This must be a common requirement and I am wondering how best to arrange it. I could simply add another 5 worksheets for every month with helpful tab names but suspect there is a more elegant method of arranging them as 6 x 12 worksheets.
    Any suggestions would be very welcome.
    Nick

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    Since I have had no replies so far let me restate the problem more briefly and (I hope) more clearly:-

    I am using Excel to provide a monthly income and expenditure analysis under various headings (columns) with current month and year-to-date totals. The workbook contains 12 worksheets, one for each month. I now need to break down each monthly analysis to show the constituent parts of the business plus a monthly summary for the whole with month and year-to-date totals, as before.

    I am seeking the most elegant and efficient arrangement but can so far think of only two ways of representing this, neither of which seem ideal.
    First, I could simply have a workbook with extra worksheets: AprilTotals, AprilDept1, AprilDept2,..., MayTotals, MayDept1, MayDept2, ... This may be the simplest solution.
    Second, I could have 12 workbooks; but is it possible to accumulate totals across separate workbooks?
    Is there a third alternative with one, integrated workbook containing 12 worksheets, each of which contains a number of sub-worksheets? Or is there another way altogether of looking at this? It must be a common requirement. I would like to build this the right way before entering all the data.
    I'd be grateful for any comments.

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    How about putting all the data in one workbook on one worksheet and using a pivot table?
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    Thanks shg.
    I haven't used pivot tables before. Now I know what I'm looking for I can see that they are probably the answer. I will learn how to use them and expect it will be fairly straight forward to set up what I need.
    Problem solved (I think)!

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    Another star is born. Post back and let us know how you make out.

    If you Google excel pivot table, you will find some very good resources on the web by Excel MVPs.

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