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GENO
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Since: Sep 14, 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:04 am    Post subject: linking excel docs
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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
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Franz Verga
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Since: Jun 21, 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:10 am    Post subject: Re: linking excel docs [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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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.


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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
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