Copying a worksheet to another workbook

[Guest]

I am trying to copy a worksheet A to another workbook. The original worksheet
A has formulas such as ='Store P&LE11, where Store P&L is another worksheet
in the same workbook. The new workbook to which I plan to copy worksheet A
also has a worksheet named Store P&L. I want the copied worksheet to retain
the original formula reference so that it will refer to Store P&L in the
destination worksheet. Instead, I am getting a link reference back to
worksheet A's workbook when I copy the worksheet to its destination. How can
I fix this?

Thanks.

 

[Gord Dibben]

That formula is not legal so I guess there must be a typo or two but aside from
that, one way to copy to another workbook is to copy the formulas as text then
change back to formulas.

Select formulas in source sheet and Edit>Replace

What: =

With: ^^^

Replace all.

Copy the altered results to the target workbook then reverse the Edit>Replace in
that workbook.

Close source workbook without saving or reverse the edit>rplace there also.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

I have done as you said for the entire worksheet. I have then used the
command to copy the sheet to a destination workbook. The error message I get
is that I have cells with more than 255 characters, which it states will be
lost. Solution?

Another solution suggested was to simply copy the worksheet as above, then
copy the descriptive reference to the old workbook from one of the formulas
into Find, Replace with blank, then Replace All. The problem I have with
this is I can't seem to copy that segment of the formula into the Find box.
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Guest]

On the second solution, I managed to type the old workbook reference into
Replace What, left With blank, then Replace All. It seemed to work until it
hit a long formula with a lot of those references and the stopped with a
message "Formula too long." What can I do?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Do you have more than one instance of Excel running with a workbook open in
each?

Close one instance and open both workbooks in the same instance and the copy
should work without the truncation message.


Gord

 

[Guest]

Gord,

Did as you said within one instance. Copy Sheet produced the truncation
message and did in fact truncate. Solution?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Open both workbooks in the same instance of excel.
Select the worksheet to copy in the "sending" workbook.
Change all the formulas to text using that technique that Gord suggested.

Select all the cells
edit|Replace
What: =
With: ^^^
Replace all

Copy that sheet (edit|Move or copy sheet) to the other workbook.
Ignore the error about the truncation.

Back to the original workbook/worksheet.
Select all the cells
edit|copy

To the new workbook/worksheet
Select A1
Edit|Paste

With all the cells selected in that new worksheet, it's time to change the
strings back to formulas:

Select all the cells
edit|Replace
What: ^^^
With: =
Replace all

And do the same in the original worksheet, too. (Or close it without saving.)