Nasima has attended:
Excel Advanced course
Excel
1. Can you link one spreadsheet to another spreadsheet?
2. Can you delete something from one spreadsheet and the same information will delete from the linked spreadsheet (if possible)?
3. How do you take the same information from one spreadsheet to another spreadsheet withou copying and pasting (especially when the information you are copying is scattered)?
can you do a v look up between 2 seperate spreadsheets?
RE: excel
Hi Nasima
Yes data from one spreadsheet can be linked to another spreadsheet. If it is a block of data the easiest way is as follows:
Open both spreadsheets
Copy the block of data from spreadsheet 1
Select a cell in spreadsheet 2
Choose Paste Special
Press Paste Link button
Then if data is deleted from spreadsheet 1 it will display as 0 in spreadsheet 2.
Also when opening spreadsheet 2 on its own you will be prompted with Options, choose Enable Content to display the latest changes made to spreadsheet 1.
If the data is scattered then copy / paste link wont work.
You can start in spreadsheet 2 and use the following method:
Select a cell
Press =
Navigate to spreadsheet 1
select the cell you wish to link
Press Enter
You will have to do this for all the date you wish to link.
You can also use this method to linka block of cell. But you have to remove the $ signs around the cells reference before pressing Enter. Then the linked cell can be copied down and across.
Please let me know if that helps Nasima
Regards
Doug Dunn
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