Shortening a formula

Can someone help me shorten this formula? I'm not sure if the
mathamatics can be shortened by altering the formula or using a
different formula to figure out the problem, but the path name makes it
exceed the max amount of charachters. Changing the linking files path
location is not an option. I know I can achieve it by putting different
formulas in a couple of seperate cell's but I'm trying to get the final
result by only using one cell, I know the path name can be shortened by
using '[pn] instead, but the name of the spreadsheet changes every
month, so I can't easily find a replace 200607.xls to 200608.xls next
month for the cell's with these formulas like I can on all of the other
formulas, since the formula will not contain 200607.xls if I use '[pn].

*The value of I56 is a date

I would like to be able to shorten this formula to be able to show the
files full path location:

=IF(I56>=TODAY(),"N/A",SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA
information'!$D$18:$AG$18/(SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA
information'!$D$19:$AG$19)+SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
information 200607.xls]
Daily DBMA information'!$D$18:$AG$18))))

This is how I currently have it, but it creates problems, when the path
needs to be changed every month:

=IF(I56>=TODAY(),"N/A",SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$18:$AG$18/(SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$19:$AG$19)+SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
information'!$D$18:$AG$18))))

Don't'cha just love those ridiculous paths?

You can save a lot of characters by renaming some of the subdirectories (but
it's probably too late for that!). Were you around in the good old days when
all we had was the 8.3 name convention? We were able to handle things back
then just fine! $&*%^ Windows!!!!

For example:

Departments can be Depts
Operations can be Ops
DBMA Team can be DBTeam
DBMA Reports can be Reports
DAILY Daily DBMA information can be DailyDBInfo

The file name and the sheet name could also be shortened.

All this will add up!

Good luck!

Biff

"GTVT06" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Can someone help me shorten this formula? I'm not sure if the
> mathamatics can be shortened by altering the formula or using a
> different formula to figure out the problem, but the path name makes it
> exceed the max amount of charachters. Changing the linking files path
> location is not an option. I know I can achieve it by putting different
> formulas in a couple of seperate cell's but I'm trying to get the final
> result by only using one cell, I know the path name can be shortened by
> using '[pn] instead, but the name of the spreadsheet changes every
> month, so I can't easily find a replace 200607.xls to 200608.xls next
> month for the cell's with these formulas like I can on all of the other
> formulas, since the formula will not contain 200607.xls if I use '[pn].
>
> *The value of I56 is a date
>
> I would like to be able to shorten this formula to be able to show the
> files full path location:
>
> =IF(I56>=TODAY(),"N/A",SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$18:$AG$18/(SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$19:$AG$19)+SUMPRODUCT(--(''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),''C:\Departments\Operations\DBMA
> Team\DBMA\DBMA Reports\DAILY Daily DBMA information\[Daily account DBMA
> information 200607.xls]
> Daily DBMA information'!$D$18:$AG$18))))
>
> This is how I currently have it, but it creates problems, when the path
> needs to be changed every month:
>
> =IF(I56>=TODAY(),"N/A",SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$18:$AG$18/(SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$19:$AG$19)+SUMPRODUCT(--('[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$10:$AG$10<=I56),'[pn]Daily DBMA
> information'!$D$18:$AG$18))))
>