If I really understood your problem, you can add in your answear column of
doc2 and doc3 something like this:
=IF(OR(A2="",A2=0),"",IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A2,doc1_column_A,1,0)),"",VLOOKUP(A2,doc1_column_A,1,0)))
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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)
Hope I helped you.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Ciao
Franz Verga from Italy (now in Berlin)GENO wrote:
> I have linked 3 excel docs which have about 90% similar formatting and
> formulas. in these docs i have a list of questions which differ
> slightly and I would like to have columns with similar question to
> input in all three excel docs. e.g question 1 in all three docs is
> the same, question 2 is different across them. if answer in question
> 1 doc 1 is genius to have an automatic input in doc 2 and doc 3.
>
> Any suggestions on this (please note that these columns have an
> existing formula),
>
> thanx