Not sure of either answer. I am a pure novice, thru and thru. Ok, here is what I am doing. I am trying to filter, under macro control, for a certian row of info within a list. each row has a unique alpha numeric designation, such as MM1, but could be anything, AQ7, etc. If I filter for MM1, I am returned MM1, MM10, MM11....MM19, MM100, etc, same with any other alpha combo. I was told, and found it to be true that if I filter using the criteria '=MM1, it will only find, MM1. Now, I can put the filter criteria, MM1 into any know cell, but I then have to, under macro control, append the '= protion so I can then put that into the criteria range. I have no idea how to do this. Learning tiny bits every day, but havn't figgured this out yet. Any ideas?