Gord,

Many thanks. I knew about adding in the sheet reference (as suggested
by others) and should have said so in my original post. Your suggestion
is exactly what I needed. I have created a number of these UDFs which
should be useful to other genealogists in an organization of which I am
a volunteer and was looking for a way to make them easily available to
others as well as to myself. Your advice is much appreciated.




Gord Dibben Wrote:
If you save Personal.xls as an Add-in(*.xla) you will not be forced to
add the
workbook reference to your formula.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:54:20 -0000, "Bob Phillips"
wrote:

Use

=Personal.xls!Soundex(A1)

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"DrShowMe"
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I have a workbook that contains regular (Sub) macros and function
macros. Some of the function macros are used by the regular macros.
I
moved ALL the macros into Personal.xls. After doing this, the
regular
macros are available to all new and existing Workbooks. However,
the
function macros are NOT. For example, I have a function macro that
creates a code (Soundex) that is used by genealogists. If I insert
"=soundex(A1)" into cell B1, B1 should contain the code for the
contents of cell A1. This works fine as long as I copy the function
into a VB module in the workbook in which I want to use it. However,
I
want to be able to call this function (and many others) from any
workbook without copying all of them from Personal.xls into each
workbook.

Can someone give me a clue about how to do this.

TIA


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