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drag and drop linked cel
When I drag a cel that is linked to another worksheet, it drops a zero
into my target cel. The information in the cel is text, no numbers. I linked by doing a paste special. How do I control the drag and drop feature? dzelnio |
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You will get a zero if the source cell contains no data.
One way to get around this is use an IF formula in the target cell. =IF(Sheet1!A1="","",Sheet1!A1) Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:58:13 -0700, dzelnio wrote: When I drag a cel that is linked to another worksheet, it drops a zero into my target cel. The information in the cel is text, no numbers. I linked by doing a paste special. How do I control the drag and drop feature? dzelnio |
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Hi,
Yes. Since the cell has link to another worksheet cell it displays correctly, because the link refers to the abosolute cell reference. But when you drag the cell, the relative reference of your current worksheet will not refer to the abosulute reference of your previous worksheet. To try this, just move the cell in the source worksheet you linked one below and you will notice that the your current cell displays the linked cell. Note: You can only copy and special from your source file agin to the target location. Challa Prabhu "dzelnio" wrote: When I drag a cel that is linked to another worksheet, it drops a zero into my target cel. The information in the cel is text, no numbers. I linked by doing a paste special. How do I control the drag and drop feature? dzelnio |
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The formula did not work. Couldn't I just define my source column/
cells to accept the source data instead of the path upon copy/paste or drop/drag? How would that happen? dzelnio On Jul 6, 2:52 am, challa prabhu wrote: Hi, Yes. Since the cell has link to another worksheet cell it displays correctly, because the link refers to the abosolute cell reference. But when you drag the cell, the relative reference of your current worksheet will not refer to the abosulute reference of your previous worksheet. To try this, just move the cell in the source worksheet you linked one below and you will notice that the your current cell displays the linked cell. Note: You can only copy and special from your source file agin to the target location. Challa Prabhu "dzelnio" wrote: When I drag a cel that is linked to another worksheet, it drops a zero into my target cel. The information in the cel is text, no numbers. I linked by doing a paste special. How do I control the drag and drop feature? dzelnio |
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