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Linking Worbooks

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potter.justin@gmail.com - 30 Sep 2006 22:07 GMT
I was wondering if there is a way to link workbooks in excel using
cells in the filename path.  In otherwords if you wanted to create a
summary sheet from multiple workbooks, would there be a way to use a
cell reference in the name instead of an explicit reference. ie:
='O:\Scope Sheet Templates\[2a - Earthwork.xls]2a'!A

and you had in your summary sheet:

Column A    Column B
2a     Earthwork
2b     Caissons
2c     Asphalt
2d     Tennis Courts
2e     Pavers
2f     Site Concrete
2h     Site Utilities

Such that you could use an entry from Column A and an entry from Column
B to reference the filename:
=CONCATENATE("'",INFO("directory"),"[",A11," ","-"," ",B11............)
such that it would actually reference the appropriate workbook?  Or am
I going about this totally wrong?

Thanks
Tom Ogilvy - 30 Sep 2006 23:14 GMT
This isn't supported for closed workbooks.

Harlan Grove wrote a UDF that can do it.

http://tinyurl.com/rto3s

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Tom Ogilvy

>I was wondering if there is a way to link workbooks in excel using
> cells in the filename path.  In otherwords if you wanted to create a
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> Thanks

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