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    I work for a manufacturing company who produces parts for many clients. We have three separate workbooks for our three major clients that contain all of their in-process orders.

    I'm wondering if there's a way to use formulas to copy info from these three separate workbooks (they have identical columns) and have them fill the "next blank row" when they are pulled in.

    Basically, the sales team members wants to be able to pull up and manipulate their own excel workbooks (each member has one of the top three), but our contract administrator wants to be able to open up one document and view all the current open orders, allowing her to asses priority of parts hitting the floor, being shipped, etc.

    If this can't be done with formulas and requires VBA work, that's fine. The simpler the better, though. A lot of the people who will be using these are not extremely excel literate.

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    Re: Multiple workbooks feeding one master workbook

    Ok, where are these going to be stored in relation to one another? one common machine, a network drive, separate machines on the same network..?

    Once that is answered it's actually pretty easy to do. I would suggest either tying the boss-mans (or boss-womans) workbook to the others via a workbook_open auto-run type of macro, or just one they can run via a button/hotkey...depends on their comfort level i guess.

    Do you want it to pull in new stuff or just make the bosses sheet match the other 3 exactly (meaning if the bosses sheet has information not in the other sheets it's removed)?

    There's lots of ways to do it
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    Re: Multiple workbooks feeding one master workbook

    Thanks for the reply.

    All of the files will be stored on our server. A hotkey to update sounds great. The less they have to fumble around with the ribbon, the better. haha

    I'd like all of the data on this "parent" file to match the other "children" files exactly. This way the sales team can update their own files and do all the information tracking, and the contract administrator can just review the information, compare it, and make decisions based upon their info.

    Thanks again!

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    Re: Multiple workbooks feeding one master workbook

    hmm...try this out. This will combine all the "Sheet1" tabs from the "part books" into one MasterSheet.

    Steps to try out:

    1- download the "Test.zip" attachment to anywhere.
    2- extract the folder "Test".
    3- open the file labeled "MasterSheet_WithMacro" and run the macro.

    This macro will look to a folder named ComponentSheets for the parts...from that folder it will extract everything from the "sheet1" tabs (of each book) and paste those rows to the "sheet1" tab of the MasterSheet.


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    Re: Multiple workbooks feeding one master workbook

    I had to make alot of assumptions to give you a book to test give er a shot and let me know what works/don't work.

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