I USED to know this stuff, but since being diagnosed with lupus 14 years ago, I haven't had a reason to work extensively with Excel and Access like I used to. So here's the project I've set to get the little grey cells working again: a check register.

All I'm doing is copying over the CSV version of my bank's register, but I'm adding a column for Category. I will only categorize a few things and those are basically related to taxes. So I have Charity, Medical, Income, Taxes.

These items naturally are scattered throughout the register. It's already going to be tedious because I have to start over from January 1 to find and label these items (in my very first post I tell of discovering my entries were all out of order). So instead of having to select individual cells and add them together, is there a way I can find and add all the "charity" entries and stick a running total somewhere. And the same for the other items.

Understand what I'm trying to say? Just a way around what I normally would do with Quicken and create reports at tax time.

Thanks for your help!

CJ