Text referencing method

[FangYR]

Hi All
I used to copy grouped Items, their Specs and Qty from one sheet to another.
Sheet1
Items Spec Qty
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
D1 30 5
etc.

But when I introduce a new item T3 with Spec 100 and (new) Qty 10, and insert a row betwen T2 and D1, my Sheet2 looks like this:
Sheet2
Items Spec Qty(b/f)
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
T3 30 5 (instead of 100 and 10 respectively)
D1 (instead of 30 and 5 respectively)
etc.

How to copy data using text reference method instead of cell reference?
Thanks.

 

[JulieD]

Hi All
I used to copy grouped Items, their Specs and Qty from one sheet to another.
Sheet1
Items Spec Qty
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
D1 30 5
etc.

But when I introduce a new item T3 with Spec 100 and (new) Qty 10, and

insert a row betwen T2 and D1, my Sheet2 looks like this:

 

[JulieD]

Hi

not sure what's happening here ... what is the formula or otherwise in the
T1 spec cell in sheet2?
how are you inserting the row? and on what sheet as i can not duplicate your
results

also not sure what you mean by "grouped items" on sheet 1 ...

however, one idea - you might like to look at using a VLOOKUP function to
link the two sheets:
on sheet 2 for spec
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$2:$C$10,2,false)
and on sheet 2 for qty
=VLOOKUP(A2,Sheet1!$A$2:$C$10,3,false)

Hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD

Hi All
I used to copy grouped Items, their Specs and Qty from one sheet to another.
Sheet1
Items Spec Qty
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
D1 30 5
etc.

But when I introduce a new item T3 with Spec 100 and (new) Qty 10, and

insert a row betwen T2 and D1, my Sheet2 looks like this:

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
if column A in sheet one is entered manually you can use
VLOOKUP for this. e.g.
=VLOOKUP(A1,'sheet2'!$A$1:$C$100,2,0)

-----Original Message-----
Hi All
I used to copy grouped Items, their Specs and Qty from one sheet to another.
Sheet1
Items Spec Qty
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
D1 30 5
etc.

But when I introduce a new item T3 with Spec 100 and

(new) Qty 10, and insert a row betwen T2 and D1, my Sheet2
looks like this:

 

[Max]

One guess is you might have
copy > pasted "link" formulas in Sheet2 such as:

In A1: =Sheet1!A1
In A2: =Sheet1!A2
etc

Try in a new Sheet3
-----------------------
Put in A1:

=OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,ROW(A1)-1,COLUMN(A1)-1)

Copy A1 across to C1, then copy down
a "safe" max number of rows which can cover the likely
max increase in rows for new items in the source Sheet1

For a neater look, extraneous zeros can
be suppressed from showing in Sheet3 via:
Tools > Options > View tab > Uncheck "Zero values" > OK

When new items are added in-between existing items to the source table in
Sheet1 via insertion of new rows*,
these new items will be updated in Sheet3
but not in Sheet2 (albeit Sheet2's links will update)

*Presume you're using Insert > Rows to do this,
rather than Insert > Cells
(which might cause errors if you omit changing
the default "Shift cells down" in the Insert dialog to "Entire row")

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Rgds
Max
xl 97
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Hi All
I used to copy grouped Items, their Specs and Qty from one sheet to another.
Sheet1
Items Spec Qty
T1 30 10
T2 50 10
D1 30 5
etc.

But when I introduce a new item T3 with Spec 100 and (new) Qty 10, and

insert a row betwen T2 and D1, my Sheet2 looks like this: