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    hi all, I have a question regarding links:
    say I have three workbooks - 1. June Budget, 2. June production and 3. June Report
    If I link the data from 2 and 3 into 1, and if i save 1 as July Report does the links stay the same?
    Basically what I want to do is take the three workbooks and use them for the 12 months in a year, change the data each month but have the data links change accordingly and easily, without creating all the files again. Any ideas?

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    Re: links between workbooks

    Yes, if you have workbook 3 open when you do the SaveAs on the other two. As you could easily verify.
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    Re: links between workbooks

    I didn't want to mess up my books, so to verify, if I have all the books open and I save them as JuLy Budget, July Production and July Reports - the links for June stay the same and change for July correct? So June's would stay intact? There is a lot of data.

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    Re: links between workbooks

    make links for all months and with LOOKUP month num (parameter, for example) take needed links

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    Re: links between workbooks

    do you mean the find/replace? and is there a feature to look through all of the book instead of going to page after page?

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    Re: links between workbooks

    no, just worksheet functions
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    Re: links between workbooks

    Quote Originally Posted by bugdout View Post
    I didn't want to mess up my books, ...
    As a matter of basic file hygiene, you should make the June workbooks read-only first, to avoid a mistake.
    Last edited by shg; 06-18-2016 at 02:22 PM.

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