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Help linking workbooks
I have 5 direct reports who have 5 of their own. I created a spreadsheet to
give to the 30 indirect reports and now I want to be able to gather the data for each of my direct reports. I know I can have my direct report's spreadsheet link to their reports but I don't want to create the templete 5 times and then redo it every time a direct or indirect report changes or one is added. Is there a way to link spreadsheets but instead of giving a definate workbook name have it reference a cell within that workbook which would tell it the name of the workbook to reference? IE. We are always looking for cell b4, but (workbook_1XB4) and somewhere in the workbook we are in it tells it what workbook_1 is. Thanks |
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Bartman,
Use INDIRECT. For example, if "Book1" were typed in cell A1, the following formula would refer to cell B4 on tab "Sheet1" of workbook "Book1": =INDIRECT("'[" & A1 & ".xls]Sheet1'!$B$4) The extra bits (brackets and such) are just the formatting to get the reference right. Eric "Bartman" wrote: I have 5 direct reports who have 5 of their own. I created a spreadsheet to give to the 30 indirect reports and now I want to be able to gather the data for each of my direct reports. I know I can have my direct report's spreadsheet link to their reports but I don't want to create the templete 5 times and then redo it every time a direct or indirect report changes or one is added. Is there a way to link spreadsheets but instead of giving a definate workbook name have it reference a cell within that workbook which would tell it the name of the workbook to reference? IE. We are always looking for cell b4, but (workbook_1XB4) and somewhere in the workbook we are in it tells it what workbook_1 is. Thanks |
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