Ed... That you should be required to use a tutorial to figure it out demonstrates that this is a really dreadful program. I suspect that none of us needed tutorials for the old one, which worked pretty well. Then there is the matter of the output (XL), which is unsortable, left justified (did anyone on the vendor selection committee know that numbers are routinely right justified?), numbers that are in non-number format so they cannot be added up. This is the stuff of comedy routines. Of course, anyone familiar with XL can easily get around all of these problems, but it is a terrible waste of time, since the adjustments that make it possible to calculate and to add have to be made on every spreadsheet. Then there is the matter of FIPs codes, which should be routinely provided with the spreadsheets, or at least there should be an option to include it. I have worked with data from national statistics bureaus around the world and never encountered anything remotely as unusable and inefficient. Brings back memories of New Coke, which Coca Cola wisely withdrew.... can only hope that the Census Bureau will follow their lead and start over. Best regards, Wendell Cox On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ed Christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> wrote: -- -- Wendell Cox Demographia | Wendell Cox Consultancy - St. Louis Missouri-Illinois metropolitan region Visiting Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris +1.618 632 8507 www.demographia.com | www.publicpurpose.com | www.rentalcartours.net Books & Publications WAR ON THE DREAM: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life http://www.demographia.com/wod1.pdf 7th ANNUAL DEMOGRAPHIA INTERNATIONAL HOUSING AFFORDABILITY SURVEY ( http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf) THE WAL-MART REVOLUTION: How Big-Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy By Richard Vedder & Wendell Cox