i need to create a daily income report. I'm a waitress and it's hard to keep
track of $$$. Just something where I can calculate how much I make at the end
of the month.

Try this set-up

In Sheet2
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Enter in A1: Jan-2005
Copy A1 down to A60
(this returns a 5 year's worth
of monthly listing: Jan-2005, Feb-2005 .. Dec-2009)

Click Insert Name Define
Under Names in workbook, put: MyMonth
In the Refers to box, put: =OFFSET(Sheet2!$A$1,,,COUNTA(Sheet2!$A:$A))
(This creates a dynamic range for use in the data validation we're going to
put in Sheet1)

In Sheet1
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Put in A2: 01-Jan-2005
Copy A2 down to say, A2000
(A2:A2000 will return the daily dates)

In the adjacent range B2:B2000 will be where you enter the daily income
(Select col B and format as currency)

Let's create a data validation list to select the month-year of interest

Select A1
Click Data Validation
Under Allow, select "List"
In the Source box, put: =MyMonth
Click OK

Put in B1:

=IF(A1="","",SUMPRODUCT((MONTH(A2:A2000)=MONTH(A1) )*(YEAR(A2:A2000)=YEAR(A1)),B2:B2000))

B1 will return the total income for the month-year selected in the droplist
in A1
If you select: Jan-2005 in A1, B1 will return the total income for Jan-2005,
and so on

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Rgds
Max
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"NayNae" wrote:

i need to create a daily income report. I'm a waitress and it's hard to keep
track of $$$. Just something where I can calculate how much I make at the end
of the month.

If you'd like a sample book with the set-up implemented,
just drop me a line at either:

demechanik <atyahoo<dotcom
or
xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom

(both valid)
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Rgds
Max
xl 97
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GMT+8, 1° 22' N 103° 45' E
xdemechanik <atyahoo<dotcom
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