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how do I link spread sheets

RE: spreadsheets

Hello Sultan

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

The most straightforward way of creating a link is to create a simple formula that makes one cell equal to another. For example, if you are adding together sales across 4 quarters, then you want to be able to use the total sales in another workbook as part of another set of calculations (e.g. to determine profit), then you could do the following:

Select the cell where you wish to create the link (in the worksheet where you are figuring out profit).

Type in =

Navigate to and select the cell where you have created the total sales formula (by adding together figures from the 4 quarters).

Press Enter.

You have now created a link between the cell containing the total in the worksheet where you are doing your profit calculations; and the cell which contains the total for the 4 quarters.

The advantage is, if the sales figures are altered, which then adjusts the total sales, this would be reflected in the sheet where you are calculating profit, and adjust the profit calculation accordingly.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

Fri 12 Dec 2008: Automatically marked as resolved.


 

Excel tip:

Calculate difference between two times

For presenting the result in the standard time format (hours : minutes : seconds . Use the subtraction operator (-) to find the difference between times, and the TEXT function to format the returned value to text in a specific number format.

Hours never exceed 24, minutes never exceed 60, and seconds never exceed 60.

=TEXT(B2-A2,"h")
Hours between two times (4)

=TEXT(B2-A2,"h:mm")
Hours and minutes between two times (4:55)

=TEXT(B2-A2,"h:mm:ss")
Hours and seconds between two times (4:55:00)

Where B2 and A2 must hold the end time and start time respectively formatted as a time format

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