Excel formulas not working, not updating, not calculating: fixes & solutions. Please see How to refer to another sheet or workbook in Excel. Include the full path to a closed workbook. The formula continues to show the old value even after you've changed the values of the dependent cells. When Excel formulas are not updating.
If you want to copy a cell entry from one worksheet into another worksheet and have that 2nd worksheet change automatically when you change the data in the cell in the first worksheet, here's how: 1) In the first worksheet, right click in the cell you want to copy and click 'copy' 2) Go to the cell in the 2nd worksheet that you want to enter the same data,right click in that cell and click 'paste' 3) After you paste it, a little box will appear on the bottom right of the cell (looks like a folder/envelope). Click on that and a dropdown box will appear. Click on 'Link cells' if the cell you're copying doesn't have a formula associated with it, or click on 'Values and number formatting' if the cell your copying has a formula in it (or click on any other item that applies) 4) You're done. Now if you change the value in the original worksheet, it will change in the 2nd worksheet automatically. Click to expand.Here is a slightly more complicated version of this question (Excel 2007): I have many copies of the same.xlsx worksheet with different text values on Sheet1 of the form, and I anticipate getting many more. I would like to create a summary sheet for all of these forms by specifying the NAME of the.xlsx file in a cell and populate the cell information from specific cells out of that file for each row in the summary worksheet. I thought that perhaps I could specify the cell in the formula bar to dynamically update based on the name of the file such as this: =D2Sheet1!$B$6 where cell D2 in the destination workbook contains the file name text I would like to pull from.
As I add new files to my list I could then just add the file name to the bottom of the list (in column 'D') and the relevant info would be populated in the other columns of the workbook. Apparently this approach doesn't work due to the way the links are defined. Is there any way to dynamically setup a link to files so I can just add the file name to the workbook and have it pull out the needed info? I want to link the totals of certain columns of several worksheets to a summary worksheet in the same workbook. I keep seperate worksheets of the circulation stats of my library branches, and I want the totals of my columns to automatically show up on the cumulative worksheet as I enter new circ figures for each month in the year. Everything I've looked up talks about linking to different types of Office programs, not something as simple (but apparently hard to do) as this. Any help greatly appreciated!
When you're building formulas in Excel, it's common to reference cells that are on different worksheets, or even in different workbooks. This easy to do. Here we have 5 weeks of test scores for a group of students, and a summary sheet that's been set up to hold the test scores for all 5 weeks. What we need to do is create formulas on the summary sheet that pull in the correct values from the other sheets. Referencing cells on other sheets is very simlar to referencing cells on the same sheet.
Start with an equal sign, then move to the sheet you want to reference. In this case, we're just going to build a simple link to the scores in Week 1. Note that once we click a cell in Week 1, Excel shows the sheet name in the formula along with the cell address. Sheet names always appear with an exclamation mark at the end, before the cell refeference. To complete the formula, there's no need to go back to the original sheet - just press enter. Now let's copy this formula down. You can see that our formula is picking up all test scores in Week 1.
You might wonder what happens to the formula if we change the sheet name? Luckily, this is not something you need to worry about.
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If I temporarily change the name, Excel simply adjusts the formulas. dem I'll change it back now. For week two, let's bring in the references a different way, with Paste special. After I copy the scores to the clipboard, I can navigate back to the summary sheet and use Paste Special Paste Link. Now we have a full set of formulas that reference test scores in Week2. For week 3, I'll just type the formula in manually, beginning with the Week3 and and exclamation mark.
I know that the first cell reference is D6 and because all sheets have the identical structure, I can just copy the formula down. I'll do the same thing for Weeks 4 and 5. I get an error with week 5 because the name actually has a space in it, and Excel can't find the sheet. Even when I add the name with the space I get an error. The second error is due to the space.
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If a sheet name contains a space, you need to enclose the name in single quotes for the reference to be valid. Once I add the single quotes, I can enter the formula.