I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction when it comes to using an excel sheet (which is already built and rather large) for functions which are more suited to database functions.

The excel contains audiotaped medical info in columns:
question
physician name
diagnosis/subject
timecode
label1 (checked box "on")
label2 (checked box "off")
comments

each of these are sectioned by audiotape with headers --
looking something like this --
TAPE 1
diagnosis/subject1
then under that, columns
question | physician name | timecode | label1 | label2

then
diagnosis/subject2
then under that columns
subject/question | physician name | timecode | label1 | label2

then
TAPE 2
with similar info
so each TAPE has numerous DIAGNOSES covered under which there are various questions asked and answered by individual doctors.
(see link to dummy file for visual)
http://markwilkinson.cihost.com/barr...edfile.xls.zip

I need to be able to search on a group of criteria simultaneously:
# physician’s name
# subject
# on-label
# off-label

and return the soundbite in a user-friendly way so that the entry-level desk people (with little or no excel expertise) can retrieve it.

YES, it was not set up to do this, but this is what i've got. so i'm hoping that before i go down too many dead-ends, someone can tell me which is the best way to do this.

Looks like VLOOKUP can only really search on one column and filters would require too much expertise for entry-level employees, but should i look into VBA or Macros. or do i need to import this into Access -- or learn SQL to interface with it on a user-friendly website??

i'm happy to learn - it's what i do as the resident techie -- i just don't want to be learning the wrong application for the job. and they REALLY want to do this within Excel, if it's at all possible.

Please help if you can.

thanks,
dta