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Default Pulling cell information from one workbook to another

Try this.
Open two new workbooks; say Book1 and Book2
In A1 of Book2 etner a number, say 99
Go to Book1; type =; open Book2; click on A1; press the Enter key or click
the checkmark on Formula Bar
Look at formula in Book1; it will be =[Book2]Sheet1!$A$1
You could type the formula but the pointing method works best because when
the book name or sheet name have spaces in them the formula need single
quotes as in ='[Expt book.xlsx]Sheet1'!$A$1
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My questions is this:

How will I be able to have information pull from one cell in one workbook
to
another cell in another workbook? I can easily do it when they are on the
same workbook but different sheets, but how is this possible to have it
automatically pull the information from another workbook into the other
workbook?

example (I know it sounds confusing-sorry)

Workbook 1 (Warehouse 1)
Sheet 1 (Paper)
A B C
1 amount received amount instock total inv.
2 50 25 =sum(A2:B2)
75

3 30 40 =sum(A3:B3)
70
4 =sum(A2:A3) 80 =sum(B2:B3) 65 =sum(A4:B4) 145

Workbook 1 (Warehouse 2)
Sheet 1 (Paper)
A B C
1 amount received amount instock total inv.
2 60 50 =(sumA2:B2)
110

3 50 50 =(sumA3:B3)
100
4 =sum(A2:A3) 110 =sum(B2:B3) 100 =sum(A4:B4) 145
Now let' say I wanted to start a new workbook and pull the numbers from
both
workbooks C4 into the new work book, how would I make this happen? I can
already do it when the sheets are in the same work book, but I have failed
in
trying to pull numbers from certain cells in different worksbooks
together.

Can you give me a direct route into completeing this?