Hopefully this will make it a bit clearer. Thanks for taking a look at this. I have a word document that is comprised of about 5 paragraphs of text. At the end of each paragraph, I leave a spot for a colleague to place a number from 1 to 5 (to rank the paragraph for accuracy). I would like to be able to use these numbers to calculate an average at the bottom of the document. But I'm not sure how to do this... I know Excel is great for this, but I don't want to move this whole doc to a spreadsheet for this, since the bulk of this is formatted text. So my solution was to insert a one celled excel spreadsheet at the end of each paragraph, and then create and insert another single celled spreadsheet at the bottom for the 'average calcutation'. But in this bottom spreadsheet, I dont know how I can reference the other spreadsheets at the end of each paragraph so I can use their values for the calculation. Is there a way to do this? TIA Cerpika