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  1. 05-06-2010, 10:01 PM #1
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    Linking Sheets

    I have a spreadsheet that tracks my spending for the month. Right now I have a sheet for each month. Every month I make a new sheet that has some cell references linking it to the previous month particular cells. The way it is now, I have to manually change the sheet name that is referenced so that the correct months data will be displayed. I want to not have to manually change this every month. I would like to know if there is a formula that will link sheets and know to change with additional sheets.

    Right now in the cell I have the following:
    ='April-10'!P4
    I have to change the month and year (April-10), sheet name when I go to make a sheet for May. Thus it will look like this:
    ='May-10'!P4
    I would like to not have to manually change the month and want to just copy and paste the sheet titled April-10 to another sheet named May-10 and this update will already be done.

    This will have to work for June-10 sheet and July-10 sheet and so on.

    If anyone knows please help.
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  2. 05-06-2010, 10:48 PM #2
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    Re: Linking Sheets but not as easy as it sounds

    Hello Jab,

    welcome to the forum.

    Unfortunately, Excel does not have any native formula to refer to the previous sheet. As a workaround, you can enter the name of the previous sheet into a cell on the current sheet, for example A1. Then use Indirect() to construct the cell reference

    =indirect(A1&"!P4")

    Note, though, that Indirect() is a volatile function, which means that it will recalculate every time any cell is changed in the sheet. If you only have a few dozen Indirect() on your sheet, you probably won't notice, but if you get into several hundreds of Indirect() on one sheet, you may notice that Excel becomes slow.

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  3. 05-06-2010, 10:55 PM #3
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    Re: Linking Sheets but not as easy as it sounds

    You might get good results by just duplicating the sheet, then using the CTRL-H (Search/Replace) feature to search for the old sheetname and replace it with the new sheet name.

    Be sure to go into the Options and set it to search in Formulas instead of the default setting of Values.
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