Link to Excel files

[Salman]

if I link two files – save and close both then just open 1 of those,
it doesn’t pick up the links/formulas and shows ‘#VALUE!’ for each cell,
until the other one is open too.
Please help

 

[Pete_UK]

How did you set up the links between the files?

Pete

 

[Salman]

I manually linked them ie open 2 files. In one cell type ‘=’ then go to the
other file and link accordingly.
On the same note – sometimes I link the entire file or tab from the same
file (ie ctrl+K then select the file or tab) but often that also fails to
reopen.
First I thought its because I am linking different Excel files ie ‘Excel
97-2003’ with xls (Excel 2007). Or xls with macro to xls without macro etc.
But even I tried linking the same files eg xlsm with xlsm – still the same
problem.
For future reference - do you reckon linking different excel files could
have caused this problem?
Thanks in advance

 

[Salman]

I manually linked them ie open 2 files. In one cell type ‘=’ then go to the
other file and link accordingly.
On the same note – sometimes I link the entire file or tab from the same
file (ie ctrl+K then select the file or tab) but often that also fails to
reopen.
First I thought its because I am linking different Excel files ie ‘Excel
97-2003’ with xls (Excel 2007). Or xls with macro to xls without macro etc.
But even I tried linking the same files eg xlsm with xlsm – still the same
problem.
For future reference - do you reckon linking different excel files could
have caused this problem?
Thanks in advance

 

[Pete_UK]

I don't have XL2007, so I can't test this out, but I would have
thought that if your formula is in the .xls (97-2003) file and you are
trying to bring data from an .xlsx (2007) file then this will cause
problems.

Hope this helps.

Pete