How do you "mirror" cells in two workbooks
For sharing data with individuals, I have created two workbooks. Workbook A
is for my use, and workbook B is for sending to others. I currently have columns A through L on sheet 1 workbook B pulling data from workbook A by way of =. The problem that I have, is two fold. Dates that are blank show up as 1/0/900 rather than blank, (changing the format of the cells had no effect) and other cells which are blank are coming back 0. The reason that I am doing this is I dont want to share the information on any other columns. Is there a better way. |
You can check in your formula:
=if(yourformula="","",yourformula) like: =if(sheet2!a1="","",sheet2!a1) And it's really only one problem. If you format a cell as a date and put a 0, you'll see 1/0/1900 (assuming that 1/0/900 is a typo in your post). But the underlying value in the cell is still 0. ocampo_tony wrote: For sharing data with individuals, I have created two workbooks. Workbook A is for my use, and workbook B is for sending to others. I currently have columns A through L on sheet 1 workbook B pulling data from workbook A by way of =. The problem that I have, is two fold. Dates that are blank show up as 1/0/900 rather than blank, (changing the format of the cells had no effect) and other cells which are blank are coming back 0. The reason that I am doing this is I dont want to share the information on any other columns. Is there a better way. -- Dave Peterson |
That works great. Thank you very much.
"Dave Peterson" wrote: You can check in your formula: =if(yourformula="","",yourformula) like: =if(sheet2!a1="","",sheet2!a1) And it's really only one problem. If you format a cell as a date and put a 0, you'll see 1/0/1900 (assuming that 1/0/900 is a typo in your post). But the underlying value in the cell is still 0. ocampo_tony wrote: For sharing data with individuals, I have created two workbooks. Workbook A is for my use, and workbook B is for sending to others. I currently have columns A through L on sheet 1 workbook B pulling data from workbook A by way of =. The problem that I have, is two fold. Dates that are blank show up as 1/0/900 rather than blank, (changing the format of the cells had no effect) and other cells which are blank are coming back 0. The reason that I am doing this is I dont want to share the information on any other columns. Is there a better way. -- Dave Peterson |
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