HOW CAN I INSERT DATA BTW TWO WORKBOOK

[Kanmi]

Master!. i know this is hard to understand what I'm trying to do but I will
appreciate your taught and help to solve this. My humble pleasure to you all.

I have a large two workbook (destination.xls and source.xls), that track
training of employee. The source.xls is link to the database such a way that
whenever i open, it pull Automatic update from the database. Manager has
list of employee under him that have undergone the training and these names
sometimes occur more than one time because they have two or more training.
I am trying to set up way that after update pulled by source.xls from the
database should Automatically copies to Destination.xls on a particular rows
and also only pick one name at a time if they appear more than one time"maybe
pick the first occured of each name" and cordinate the name by Manager. For
example

"SOURCE.XLS"
A B C D
A1 EMPLOYEE ID COURSE NAME MANAGER
Kim Bell 002 Sales Training Brian
Kim Bell 002 Safety Training Brian
Lee Paul 003 Light Training Mark
Lee Paul 003 Sales Training Mark.
"DESTINATION.XLS"

B C D

B11 MANAGER EMPLOYEE ID
BRIAN Kim Bell 002
MARK Lee Paul 003

I mean the names should appear on the destination.xls automatically
according to thier MANAGER and each name should appear once on the
destination.xls "sheet1" even if they appeared 10times in the source.xls.
The COURSE NAME ROW is neccesary and it can be scrap out if it will prevent
us to achieve what we want.

Please your taught and help will be much more welcome and appreciate your
time. Thank you and look forward to hear from you.

 

[Bob Bridges]

I can think of some ways to pull student names from source to destination a)
by reference to manager name and b) getting just one instance of each
student. I can even think of ways to do it using worksheet functions rather
than via a VB macro. But the nature of a worksheet function is to go out and
get data and display it in its own cell, whereas I think you're saying you
want the source sheet to PUT THE DATA in the destination sheet. Worksheet
functions can't do that. You can put functions in the destination workbook
that will look up the data in the source workbook and display it as you want
it; but they won't know to go get the data automatically whenever source.xls
is updated, only when destination.xls is updated...and maybe when the user
remembers to tell destination.xls to update its information.

If you really want source.xls to be responsible for updating
destination.xls, and if you know someone won't have destination.xls open when
it happens, then you'll have to do it using a VB macro. That means a) you
have to know something about programming, or be willing to learn, and b)
you'll have to transfer this question to the other forum, Excel Programming.

Feel free to ask me more questions, either here or by email.