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Angyl Angyl is offline
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Default Are relative file locations possible in linking workbooks?

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't. I'm doing running reports for the
company and they are done on a weekly basis, i.e. I'm working on the report
from 10-26 to 11-1 now and when I'm done with it (today) on Monday I will
start the report that covers the period 11-2 through 11-8.

If I combined them, you can see how very quickly this workbook would be
fairly massive in size...hmmm...maybe I'll talk to my boss about doing a
single workbook monthly with the weeks divided into sheets...

Thanks!

"RagDyer" wrote:

Combine the workbooks into ONE!
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Regards,

RD

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"Angyl" wrote in message
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1st: At my company there is no network...that's right. No shared drives
(and this isn't a small company).

So...

How do I link workbooks together with a relative path so I can send them
to
someone else and still have them work.

I.E. if I want a cell in Workbook 2 to be the same as a cell in Workbook 1
I
simply enter

=

and click on the cell in Workbook 1.

What Excel translates that to is ='C:\Documents and Settings\Tallen\My
Documents\Reports\Commercial Discharges\[WorkbookName & Cell Range]')

I need to be able to EMAIL both of these documents to someone and have
them
function. I've tried deleting all of the extra pathname garbage from the
formula so hopefully the workbook would just look in the same directory it
is
in for the other file...but that doesn't work, Excel just puts the path
information right back in after I delete it.

So is there a way to get Excel to look for a file RELATIVE to its current
location (like the same directory) rather than at a full FIXED PATH?