Links - Please help

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sgrech

I am experiencing a very frustrating problem. I have a number o
seperate workbooks which contain statisics. I have attempted t
consolidated these stats on a master stat workbook via a series o
links. However my problem is that when I go into the master spreadhee
and I say yes to update links, the data doesn't refresh. However if
then open one of the source spreadsheets where the stats are bein
sourced from the data refreshes. Please can somebody explain this a
this problem is driving me crazy.

Thanks
Simo
 
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EdMac

Hi Simon,

I think you'll find it can only update when the linked books are open

Ed
 
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sgrech

EdMac said:
Hi Simon,

I think you'll find it can only update when the linked books are open

Ed
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Surely not, I am sure that I have had other instances where the
spredhseet with links in it has updated where the source workbook is
not open. Is anyone able to confirm one way or another whether this is
true?

Thanks
Simon
 
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David McRitchie

Past the mind reading stage, you did not refute that the other workbooks
were not open. Excel like the people who wrote it and use it, is not a
mind reader and would have to have access to the file and open it in
order to update. For some things Excel may actually open a file even
if you don't see it and having been a programmer the concept of accessing
anything from an unopen file is outside of common reasoning. Excel will
never open a file for use INDIRECT as for anything else about using unopen files
it's something I don't know about and would not trust....

To begin with your question was not clear, and really still is not. But the
fact that the links (which ever terminolgy you are using) are dependent on the
other workbooks being accessible means that they have to be open.

1) obtain the value from another cell
2) hyperlink to anothr location, and there is a difference between
object links and HYPERLINK Worksheet Function, and with the
function if they addresses are inside of quotes they would never
be updated.
 
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sgrech

Hi David,
Thanks for your repsonse. I suppose I will just have to open the 30 o
so source spreadhseets.

Thanks
Simo
 
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David McRitchie

Another problem with terminology. I presume you mean workbooks because
that was what was mentioned
before. The term spreadsheet is a bit ambiguous as to whether one
is referring to a workbook or a worksheet. I don't know how far back you
would have to go where you could have only one worksheet in a file.

Of course on paper a spreadsheet was one piece of paper because it
is not plural..
 
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