Item 8.01. Other Events.
Attached as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K is the following information from The Sherwin-Williams Company's ("Sherwin-Williams") Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 (the "Quarterly Report"), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 22, 2008, formatted in eXtensible Business Reporting Language ("XBRL"):
(i) Statements of Consolidated Income for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2008 and 2007, (ii) Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 2008, December 31, 2007, and September 30, 2007, (iii) Condensed Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2008 and 2007, and (iv) notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements. Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial and other information contained in the XBRL formatted documents is unaudited, and that these documents are not the official financial statements of Sherwin-Williams filed with the SEC. The purpose of submitting these XBRL formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors and others should not rely on the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, but should instead continue to rely on the official version of the information contained in the Quarterly Report in making investment decisions. In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing. Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits. Exhibit No. Exhibit Description 100.INS XBRL Report Instance Document 100.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document 100.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document 100.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document 100.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document 100.DEF XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document

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