Linking data is incredibly useful in situations where: A file with data relevant to your work is updated periodically, Normally you'd have to open the file and copy the data into your own file to calculations or such. This allows you correct the path if the original file has been moved. The path to the linked excel file must stay EXACTLY the same or else the data will not be retrieved, however it is possible to substitute linked file with a new one.
Linked data can be set to refresh automatically every time you open excel, or it can be set to manual refreshing. Every single formula works with linked data as well, but there are a few things you should know when you're working with linked data: This way excel knows that it has to sum the value in cell A1 from the current sheet and take the value in A1 in Test2.xls.
So you need to replace the second A1 with the full path to make it work: A normal formula =SUM(A1 A1) won't work, because it will just add the same cell twice. You want to SUM contents of both A1 cells.
Most of the things I want to do are simple, but it's getting them to work together that is the problem. Granted, I've only been at this for a few weeks. I understand what most VBA codes are doing, but I have a learning curve to conquer before I can manipulate them to my liking. I want to try to make things easy and very difficult for my coworkers to screw up the excel file. I am starting to dabble in VBA area of excel. I created a page "lists" to ensure spelling and notation are the same throughout the excel file. Took me a week to correct the misspellings and wrong notations. I also had to use drop down menus in a few other sections of the excel file. So I tried to eliminate this variable, but at the cost of an excel file working smoothly. I am not the best of spellers, and my coworkers are just as bad. Should I leave out the drop down menu and revert back to typing in the entry? I have trouble with VLOOKUP lagging when I use a drop down menu(s). Will evalue the 'TRUE condition' when you press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER on the formula You have to use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER when you use an array formula so that Excel does the hard work for you, and the intermediary step which you won't see in the above is =or()ĮDIT: Putting it back in the IF formula: =IF(or(A1:C1>100),) So you can use an array formula, which means that you are using multiple values (an array) in place of what is normally a single value/cell reference =or(A1:C1>100) That's not so bad when you have only 3 columns, but what about if you had 30? If you want to check whether any of the values in row 1 is > 100, you could write: =or(A1>100,b1>100,c1>100)
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