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    Question Easily Updating Formulas

    Hello. I have created a large amount of Excel sheets with summary tabs for my team, many of whom are not the best at Excel. Each of these has formulas pulling from other Excel workbooks and sheets. Creating them to work the first time is no problem, but these need updated for each project we do and this is time-consuming for me to do each week and remotely since my team is scattered all over the USA. Basically, the file path in the formulas I use will need to change to reflect the new folder the file will be in and the new name of the file. Each project gets its own folder and file name (for example, they have one right now for Illinois in a folder titled 'Illinois Review' with a file name of 'Illinois Summary'). Is there a way to quickly update all the formulas in a given sheet using macros or something similar? I cannot quickly just change one formula and auto-fill since the sheets are extremely large and have many cells that are skipped over or contain nothing that needs summarized.

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    Re: Easily Updating Formulas

    Hi and welcome
    without seeing your formulas, I would suggest using INDIRECT in your formulas for the file path. You'll just need to change the value of the cell INDIRECT refers to

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    Re: Easily Updating Formulas

    Hello and thanks for the response! The formula for one of the cells is below. Which portion would I change to INDIRECT? The file name itself?

    =SUM('H:/Documents/Home/word/Business/Illinois Review/"Illinois Summary"First File:Last File'!D21)

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    Re: Easily Updating Formulas

    Like this, maybe:

    =SUM(INDIRECT("'H:/Documents/Home/word/Business/Illinois Review/"&cell_ref&"First File:Last File'!D21")

    where cell_ref is the cell containing the file name.
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    Re: Easily Updating Formulas

    Thank you!

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