How can I pull data from multiple user workbooks into one?

G

Guest

I have set up timesheets for my department. I have a template that I have
everyone use (About 10 people), This saves the worksheet as "CSTS Employee
number Date serial" For Example if Employee 432 created a workbook for this
week, the file saved would be "CSTS 432 38808.xls". They then mail me this
template every week.
I enter the data from their totals category into a master workbook which has
totals for everyone.
1.) Is there an easy way to pull all of these into this workbook for the
year?
I was going to use the date seial to pull the data into the appropiate
location and tab of the master file.
2.) Can I pull the data from the individule files without having to pull up
the worksheets?
3.) Is there a more eloquent way to do what I want to do?

Everyone uses Office 2003
 
G

Guest

Yes, I have thought about using vlookup, but If I have 10 people sending me
timesheets every week, I would have to keep 520 Workbooks in my computer just
to pull data from.
Once I get the data in the master file, I don't care what happens to the
individual worksheets.
 
J

John James

Given the size, rather than a memory-intensive sucking of data into your
master worksheet (controlled from the target), a better approach may be
uploading the data into a database (controlled from the source) using a
macro. If all source workbooks are consistently structured, a macro in
your Personal Macro Workbook attached to say a shortcut key might be
used to upload.

I'd structure the upload data in the souce files into a contiguous
range of rows with all necessary identifiers in those rows and then
transfer that data into a single datasheet (assuming Excel was chosen
as the "database") in the target.
 

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