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    Question Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    I have 4 separate workbooks that I use to collect data from 4 different shifts. Can I place these 4 workbooks into 1? basically open said workbook and it have 4 tabs in it. Each tab opens to the needed 33 worksheets for the individual shift. I have these 4 work books linked to a totals summary worksheet in a 5th workbook. I am trying to reduce clutter and clean up a bit.

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    Hi Marsh,

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    Yes, you can do that - you could stack them vertically and have just the 34 sheets or you could have all sheets in one book

    They'd have to be distinguishable - so some sort of naming to differentiate them
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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    XLAdept,
    Just how would I go about stacking them?

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    These are the workbooks I am dealing with. A,B,C and D shifts. The information from them is totaled in the Monthly Totals.
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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    I'll respond to this tomorrow, lest someone intercede

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    Copy that. Thank you sir.

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    Hi Marsh,

    This looks to be fairly complicated - not the least of the complications is that you sent me protected sheets and no password

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    Sorry about that. for the 4 shifts, the password is DAR. For the Totals Page, the password is DARTOTALS

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    You may not want to do this, to get this far I had to delete all the named ranges. If you do want it, I've still got more coding to do. The only data I noticed was in Shift D on the first:

    I ran the Shift sheets one at a time to create the Stack tab in the master and I created the TotiN tab because of the password hassle.

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    This will be used by each shift, 7 days straight for A shift, 7 nights straight for B shift. Then C and D take over. I am just trying to have less folders/files. Clean it up a bit you might say

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    Well, is it what you wanted? Is it worth the named ranges? Look it over and let me know

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    Re: Placing a Workbook inside a workbook

    I am about to play with it and see how it goes. Thank you for the assistance!!!

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