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Best practice for using a data from one Excel file in others (all on Office365 sharepoint)

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    Best practice for using a data from one Excel file in others (all on Office365 sharepoint)

    Hello,

    I am trying to use a table in one Excel file to populate drop down lists in several other Excel files via the 'data validation' feature. All of the Excel files are to be hosted on sharepoint for Office 365. The thinking being that if the master list is changed all of my dropdowns in the other files will automatically change to reflect this.

    Does anyone know of any efficient and simple ways of doing this?

    Thanks in advance.

    Rhys

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    Re: Best practice for using a data from one Excel file in others (all on Office365 sharepo

    One way to do it is through ADODB connection.
    Querying named range from closed workbook and writing result to the current workbook. Using that as data validation source.

    Though I'm not sure if it's possible with workbook hosted on SharePoint site...

    Another method and the one I prefer (used it for years on SharePoint Foundation 2010).
    Is to create data connection to SharePoint list (custom view), using SharePoint list to populate table in Excel.
    Then using table column as data validation list.

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