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Cells to link to "current workbook"
I have a spreadsheet that contains pricing that is calculated by referencing
cells in various other workbooks saved under customer names (not at the same time). I need to create a macro that will allow me to easily link my pricing workbook to my customer workbooks. Any macro that I have tried to create to accomplish that limits itself to the workbook I pointed it to while creating it. Is there a way to write the code that can be flexible to reference any workbook and not specifically the workbook it originally referenced? Hope that made sense. I'm stuck. I've tried all kinds of tricks. Thank you. -- David P. |
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you dont need a macro,in the cell you want the link to exist in type =and
then click in the cell in the workbook you want to link to.ie the workbook that you want to link to has to be open at the time you create the link,unless you know the name of the workbook and the cell reference you want to link to you just type ='C:\Documents and Settings\John Smith\My Documents\[book1.xls]Sheet1'!$O$4 or similar -- paul remove nospam for email addy! "David P." wrote: I have a spreadsheet that contains pricing that is calculated by referencing cells in various other workbooks saved under customer names (not at the same time). I need to create a macro that will allow me to easily link my pricing workbook to my customer workbooks. Any macro that I have tried to create to accomplish that limits itself to the workbook I pointed it to while creating it. Is there a way to write the code that can be flexible to reference any workbook and not specifically the workbook it originally referenced? Hope that made sense. I'm stuck. I've tried all kinds of tricks. Thank you. -- David P. |
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Good morning David Try saving your macro as an add-in, and don't reference it to a particular workbook by name, but use the ActiveWorkbook instruction, which will just use the file you are working on. HTH DominicB -- dominicb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dominicb's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=18932 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=378267 |
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