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I've seen a formula before that enabled links within a file to change
automatically with the changing of one cell.

Each File linked to is in the format

Cell Name P6 Y2006.xls (With the P6 and Y2006 changing each month/year)

I know there is a formula somewhere that means I can make all the formulas
pull part of the file names from a certain cell that will contain the current
month year.

To save me time changing all the formulas.

Any chance anyone knows how to do this?

Thank you in advance

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Default Automatically Changing File Links

If the "sending" workbook is open, you may have seen =indirect()--but that only
works if the "sending" workbook is open.

You may find using
edit|links|change source
easier.

Tom Hewitt wrote:

I've seen a formula before that enabled links within a file to change
automatically with the changing of one cell.

Each File linked to is in the format

Cell Name P6 Y2006.xls (With the P6 and Y2006 changing each month/year)

I know there is a formula somewhere that means I can make all the formulas
pull part of the file names from a certain cell that will contain the current
month year.

To save me time changing all the formulas.

Any chance anyone knows how to do this?

Thank you in advance

Regards


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