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populate a cell with an external workbook referance
Hi Group. I am using the Office 2000 package.
I was unable to do this with a formula so now I'm looking for help in creating a macro that can referance an external workbook find a value and push it to a local cell. The workbook address and cell I want to referance needs to be a combination of variables found in three cells in the local work book. So if A1=VARIABLE1 and B2=VARIABLE2 and B3=VARIABLE3 then I need the macro to access "'C:\Documents and Settings\VARIABLE1\My Documents\My folder\[VARIABLE2 & VARIABLE3.xls]Expense Statement'!$F$2" And then take that value and push it to cell A1 in the local workbook. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated! Kelly |
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Hi Kelly
is you only want to get one cell from a different workbook (probably closed) you may have a look at the Add-In MOREFUNC.XLL (http://longre.free.fr/english) use the function INDIRECT.EXT.e.g. =INDIRECT.EXT("''C:\Documents and Settings\" & cell_ref1 & "\My Documents\My folder\[" & cell_ref2 & cell_ref3 & ".xls]Expense Statement'!$F$2") you may also have a look at the following thread (describing further alternatives): http://tinyurl.com/2c62u Frank Kelly wrote: Hi Group. I am using the Office 2000 package. I was unable to do this with a formula so now I'm looking for help in creating a macro that can referance an external workbook find a value and push it to a local cell. The workbook address and cell I want to referance needs to be a combination of variables found in three cells in the local work book. So if A1=VARIABLE1 and B2=VARIABLE2 and B3=VARIABLE3 then I need the macro to access "'C:\Documents and Settings\VARIABLE1\My Documents\My folder\[VARIABLE2 & VARIABLE3.xls]Expense Statement'!$F$2" And then take that value and push it to cell A1 in the local workbook. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated! Kelly |
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-----Original Message----- Hi Kelly is you only want to get one cell from a different workbook (probably closed) you may have a look at the Add-In MOREFUNC.XLL (http://longre.free.fr/english) use the function INDIRECT.EXT.e.g. =INDIRECT.EXT("''C:\Documents and Settings\" & cell_ref1 & "\My Documents\My folder\[" & cell_ref2 & cell_ref3 & ".xls] Expense Statement'!$F$2") you may also have a look at the following thread (describing further alternatives): http://tinyurl.com/2c62u Frank Kelly wrote: Hi Group. I am using the Office 2000 package. I was unable to do this with a formula so now I'm looking for help in creating a macro that can referance an external workbook find a value and push it to a local cell. The workbook address and cell I want to referance needs to be a combination of variables found in three cells in the local work book. So if A1=VARIABLE1 and B2=VARIABLE2 and B3=VARIABLE3 then I need the macro to access "'C:\Documents and Settings\VARIABLE1\My Documents\My folder\[VARIABLE2 & VARIABLE3.xls]Expense Statement'!$F$2" And then take that value and push it to cell A1 in the local workbook. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated! Kelly . Thanks Frank. I will have a look at the info you sent. |
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-----Original Message----- Hi Kelly is you only want to get one cell from a different workbook (probably closed) you may have a look at the Add-In MOREFUNC.XLL (http://longre.free.fr/english) use the function INDIRECT.EXT.e.g. =INDIRECT.EXT("''C:\Documents and Settings\" & cell_ref1 & "\My Documents\My folder\[" & cell_ref2 & cell_ref3 & ".xls] Expense Statement'!$F$2") you may also have a look at the following thread (describing further alternatives): http://tinyurl.com/2c62u Frank Kelly wrote: Hi Group. I am using the Office 2000 package. I was unable to do this with a formula so now I'm looking for help in creating a macro that can referance an external workbook find a value and push it to a local cell. The workbook address and cell I want to referance needs to be a combination of variables found in three cells in the local work book. So if A1=VARIABLE1 and B2=VARIABLE2 and B3=VARIABLE3 then I need the macro to access "'C:\Documents and Settings\VARIABLE1\My Documents\My folder\[VARIABLE2 & VARIABLE3.xls]Expense Statement'!$F$2" And then take that value and push it to cell A1 in the local workbook. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated! Kelly . Hi again, Question.. If I use the INDIRECT.EXE function and create a template. Then I place this template on a shared drive. And many people access it that do not have the add-on downloaded. Will it still work for them? So if they doubleclick on the template and look at the created xls file will the indirect function exisit on that file or would they need to have downloaded the add-on as well so that it can be referenced? Kelly |
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Kelly wrote:
. Hi again, Question.. If I use the INDIRECT.EXE function and create a template. Then I place this template on a shared drive. And many people access it that do not have the add-on downloaded. Will it still work for them? So if they doubleclick on the template and look at the created xls file will the indirect function exisit on that file or would they need to have downloaded the add-on as well so that it can be referenced? Kelly They have to install the Add-in on their local machines. Otherwise the function INDIRECT.EXT won't be recognized Frank |
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