make calculations work with one worksheet closed

[Bob L]

Is it possible to make formulas work if only one worksheet is open? I am
trying to make some spreadsheets for an elderly person and I have to open
too many worksheets open for it to work. Lets say I have a worksheet
called Quarter. That sheet gets its information from a sheet called
Journal. Once the data is entered into the journal it gets transferred to
the Quarter sheet, but if I open up the Quarter sheet without the Journal
sheet open I just get value in the cells. Can I do something so that the
journal does not have to be opened and still get the info in the Quarter
sheet?

 

[trip_to_tokyo]

EXCEL 2007

Bob, I think the answer to that is no.

If you update the first Workbook without Worbook 2 being open it will not
populate across automatically.

However, if you update Worbook 1 without Workbook 2 being open when you do
open Workbook 2 you should get a Security Warning towards the top of the
EXCEL screen.

Click on Options . . . / select Enable this content and hit OK. This will
pull in any updates that may have been made in Workbook 1.

If my comments have helped please hit Yes.

Thanks.

 

[Bob L]

I have a couple of workbooks at work that seem to do this. I enter data
into workbook 1 and save and close. I open up workbook 2 and the data is
there. Both files are on what we call the R drive, which is a networked
drive. Maybe because it is on a network drive?

 

[trip_to_tokyo]

Somebody somewhere in your organization seems to have allowed the automatic
update of the linked Workbooks.

If they are both on the same drive it would make things easier.

 

[Bob L]

So why won't it work since both are in my documents? I'm a little confused.