Referencing Cells of Different Workbook

[Guest]

Hello,
I am referencing cells of a workbook (cells contain sentences/paragraphs)
from another workbook. When the workbook (doing the referencing) opens and
the user chooses "Update" several of the sentences are cut off in a fraction
of the cells. Is there a limit to the number of characters each cell
reference can transpose (for lack of a better word) from the second document?
If there is a limit, does the length of the file path to the referenced
document count toward the number of characters? Lastly, is there a way to
capture and display all of the information in each of the referenced cells
without truncating the information (maybe some sort of copy rather than
referencing?).
Please Reply,

 

[Dave Peterson]

If the "sending" workbook is closed, then the string is truncated to 255
characters. If that sending workbook is open, you'll see the whole string.

I don't know a way around this--except to open the other workbook--or use
multiple cells in the sending workbook (no more than 255 characters in each).

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Dave. I currently have a macro that opens the "referenced" workbook
and closes it, as this is the only thing that seemed to work. I thought it
was a bad perminent fix but it would appear that it is the only fix. Thanks
for the information.

Best Regards,