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Louise has attended:
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Excel Intermediate course

Linking

Hi there, can I link single cells in one Excel workbook to another. The idea is to use the cost figures from one doc to update another. If so, how do I do it? Both Excel docs are on SharePoint. Thanks Louise

RE: Linking

Hi Louise,

Thank you for your question to the forum.

To link across workbooks do the following:

1. Open both workbooks and in the workbook 1 type = into a cell

2. Then go the workbook 2 and select the cost figure cell and press enter.

3. Now close workbook 1 and adjust the cost figure in workbook 2

4. Open workbook 1 to see the linked data update.

Moving forward, you will need to ensure both workbook filenames and saved locations are NOT changed.

Hope this helps

Kind regards
Martin Sutherland
(IT Trainer)

Excel tip:

Entering text in Multiple Worksheets

If you have a number of worksheets in a workbook that require the same information (data or tables) on each worksheet, this can be done as follows:

Hold down the Ctrl key and click one or more of the additional worksheet tabs (i.e. Sheet2, Sheet3, etc).

In your mainsheet (Sheet1) enter the required data or design a table.

When done 'Click' on the other sheet tabs and you will see that the information entered in Sheet1 is on all the other selected worksheets.

NB Do not forget to deselect the worksheets - otherwise you may add data to the main worksheet and all the selected worksheets will also have that data!

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