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Concatenate a reference to named ranges in other workbook
Hi, I hope you can help....
If I go through the long process and select ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date it will return the value of the cell but.... when B11= 'C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\ when A27= BNS20060002 When B20= Invoice_date I write =CONCATENATE(B11,A27,"xls'!",B20) It creates ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date seemingly as text, how do I get it to be a cell reference? I need to build this reference automatically. |
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Normally you would indirect the concatenated test to get the cell value, but
that won't work for closed workbooks, so take a look at As for alternatives, try the INDIRECT.EXT function in Laurent Longre's MOREFUNC.XLL add-in, available from http://xcell05.free.fr/english/ -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Hi, I hope you can help.... If I go through the long process and select ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date it will return the value of the cell but.... when B11= 'C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\ when A27= BNS20060002 When B20= Invoice_date I write =CONCATENATE(B11,A27,"xls'!",B20) It creates ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date seemingly as text, how do I get it to be a cell reference? I need to build this reference automatically. |
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Mr Philips,
I downloaded and then tried the tool you suggested, without any luck. I am wondeing, as it excel regularly works when I select name cell in an open workbook, and it functions later if the data is changed, even when the reference work book is closed. I can get the function to work I just cannot auto build the function. The character string in the cell looks Identical... could it be somekind of formatting thing? thanks,Stephen "Bob Phillips" wrote: Normally you would indirect the concatenated test to get the cell value, but that won't work for closed workbooks, so take a look at As for alternatives, try the INDIRECT.EXT function in Laurent Longre's MOREFUNC.XLL add-in, available from http://xcell05.free.fr/english/ -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Hi, I hope you can help.... If I go through the long process and select ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date it will return the value of the cell but.... when B11= 'C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\ when A27= BNS20060002 When B20= Invoice_date I write =CONCATENATE(B11,A27,"xls'!",B20) It creates ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date seemingly as text, how do I get it to be a cell reference? I need to build this reference automatically. |
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I don't think it is anything to do with formatting.
I have never used the utility myself, I never link to closed workbooks, but many people recommend it, and Laurent knows what he is doing, so I assumed it was good. What was the command as issued by you? -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Mr Philips, I downloaded and then tried the tool you suggested, without any luck. I am wondeing, as it excel regularly works when I select name cell in an open workbook, and it functions later if the data is changed, even when the reference work book is closed. I can get the function to work I just cannot auto build the function. The character string in the cell looks Identical... could it be somekind of formatting thing? thanks,Stephen "Bob Phillips" wrote: Normally you would indirect the concatenated test to get the cell value, but that won't work for closed workbooks, so take a look at As for alternatives, try the INDIRECT.EXT function in Laurent Longre's MOREFUNC.XLL add-in, available from http://xcell05.free.fr/english/ -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Hi, I hope you can help.... If I go through the long process and select ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date it will return the value of the cell but.... when B11= 'C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\ when A27= BNS20060002 When B20= Invoice_date I write =CONCATENATE(B11,A27,"xls'!",B20) It creates ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date seemingly as text, how do I get it to be a cell reference? I need to build this reference automatically. |
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Mr Phillips,
Where B10 = €œ[ A28 = BNS20060002 C10 = .xls] D10 =costing E10 =! B20 = Invoice_date F10 =€ I tried =INDIRECT.EXT(B9) where B9 = =CONCATENATE(B10,A28,C10,D10,E10,B20,F10) and displayed "[BNS20060002.xls]Costing!Invoice_date" ~did not work #VALUE! =INDIRECT.EXT((CONCATENATE(B10,A28,C10,D10,E10,B20 ,F10))) ~did not work #VALUE! if I type in a fresh cell... =INDIRECT.EXT("[BNS20060002.xls]Costing!Invoice_date") ~ this does work... correct answer! I can get the function to work, but I cannot manage to automatically write a function in a cell and have it return the answer?? This is my issue€¦ Regards Stephen Bardon "Bob Phillips" wrote: I don't think it is anything to do with formatting. I have never used the utility myself, I never link to closed workbooks, but many people recommend it, and Laurent knows what he is doing, so I assumed it was good. What was the command as issued by you? -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Mr Philips, I downloaded and then tried the tool you suggested, without any luck. I am wondeing, as it excel regularly works when I select name cell in an open workbook, and it functions later if the data is changed, even when the reference work book is closed. I can get the function to work I just cannot auto build the function. The character string in the cell looks Identical... could it be somekind of formatting thing? thanks,Stephen "Bob Phillips" wrote: Normally you would indirect the concatenated test to get the cell value, but that won't work for closed workbooks, so take a look at As for alternatives, try the INDIRECT.EXT function in Laurent Longre's MOREFUNC.XLL add-in, available from http://xcell05.free.fr/english/ -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "sbardon" wrote in message ... Hi, I hope you can help.... If I go through the long process and select ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date it will return the value of the cell but.... when B11= 'C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\ when A27= BNS20060002 When B20= Invoice_date I write =CONCATENATE(B11,A27,"xls'!",B20) It creates ='C:\Documents and Settings\me\My Documents\BNS\BNS20060002.xls'!Invoice_date seemingly as text, how do I get it to be a cell reference? I need to build this reference automatically. |
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