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    auto populate (drag?) long list of links to other worksheets

    I need to establish lots of links to collect information for a summary.

    I have numerous folders associated with different operations:
    eg.
    MM
    RA
    TS

    Each folder contains worksheets with similar info for each week of the year

    wk1.xls
    wk2.xls
    wk3.xls
    ..................
    wk52.xls
    etc.

    I want to establish a summary that collects a total from the same cell in each sheet but forming the links has become a painstaking process, I'm sure there's a better way.

    the link addresses will be ='\\server\folder\MM\[wk1.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\MM\[wk2.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\MM\[wk3.xls]!$C$16
    etc

    ='\\server\folder\RA\[wk1.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\RA\[wk2.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\RA\[wk3.xls]!$C$16
    etc
    ='\\server\folder\TS\[wk1.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\TS\[wk2.xls]!$C$16
    ='\\server\folder\TS\[wk3.xls]!$C$16
    etc

    and so on.

    except there's 15 areas of operation and 52 weeks in a year. I was hoping that simply dragging may work or a macro but cannot get there.

    any ideas?

    thanks

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    Re: auto populate (drag?) long list of links to other worksheets

    G'day and welcome to the forum,

    This may help

    http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions05.html#RefWkbk
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    Re: auto populate (drag?) long list of links to other worksheets

    thanks for your response, though I am having problems with it. Also, having to open all the books to collect values is not good.

    To add to my initial post, I don't need the links to be live updatable. This whole process is to set up links once which will then update on each opening of the summary workbook.

    I already have a much smaller version of this working fine, including updating links from closed sheets. But when I set that one up I copied, pasted and altered many cells. This one is much bigger.

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