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Issue with copying Text.
I am wondering how to copy a cell that contains text from one worksheet to
another. In other words I have two woorksheets in the same book, lets call them Sheet1 and sheet 2. Sheet1 has a column of company names in call it column A and figures in column B. Sheet 2 has a report that will change. I would like to be able to write ='Sheet1'!A1 into the cell so that no matter what I type in Sheet1 cell A1 it will copy that information over to Sheet2. I can do this with numbers but is there a way to copy text. All I get is the formula, and when I tried in a new sheet I got #VALUE! Any help would be appreciated |
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Text works the same way. (I'd guess a typing error????) or maybe you have
#Value! in that cell? And you may want to use something like: =if(sheet1!a1="","",sheet1!a1) Then empty cells won't return 0's. And if it wasn't a typo, you could hide the error by: =if(iserror(sheet1!a1),"",if(sheet1!a1="","",sheet 1!a1)) David wrote: I am wondering how to copy a cell that contains text from one worksheet to another. In other words I have two woorksheets in the same book, lets call them Sheet1 and sheet 2. Sheet1 has a column of company names in call it column A and figures in column B. Sheet 2 has a report that will change. I would like to be able to write ='Sheet1'!A1 into the cell so that no matter what I type in Sheet1 cell A1 it will copy that information over to Sheet2. I can do this with numbers but is there a way to copy text. All I get is the formula, and when I tried in a new sheet I got #VALUE! Any help would be appreciated -- Dave Peterson |
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David
What you want to do is doable using your method no matter if text or numeric data. In Sheet2 in a cell enter =Sheet1!A1 If you are seeing the formula it is possible the cell was formatted to Text prior to entering the formula. Change its format to General and F2 + ENTER to re-enter the formula. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0800, "David" wrote: I am wondering how to copy a cell that contains text from one worksheet to another. In other words I have two woorksheets in the same book, lets call them Sheet1 and sheet 2. Sheet1 has a column of company names in call it column A and figures in column B. Sheet 2 has a report that will change. I would like to be able to write ='Sheet1'!A1 into the cell so that no matter what I type in Sheet1 cell A1 it will copy that information over to Sheet2. I can do this with numbers but is there a way to copy text. All I get is the formula, and when I tried in a new sheet I got #VALUE! Any help would be appreciated |
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