I am building bar to show the daily goal and what they are at all through the day. I am basing it pretty much of this one: http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2005/10/06/css-and-html-goal-meter/ The data that i want to pull from is on an Excel spreadsheet that is updated through out the day and also gets data off of mulitple other excel files. I just need to pull one # off that spread sheet and put it so it will automatically update the barchart. If im not mistaken there is a string i can enter to pull from the excel spreadsheet field, am i correct? If not would it be easier to make a little page where the management could enter a number and it directly update the barchart?? Any suggestions will be helpful..ill check this as much as possible