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Excel 2019 Bible

You're reading from   Excel 2019 Bible The complete guide to Excel 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119514787
Length 1120 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Walkenbach John Walkenbach
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Michael Alexander Michael Alexander
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction 3. Part I: Getting Started with Excel 4. Part II: Working with Formulas and Functions 5. Part III: Creating Charts and Other Visualizations 6. Part IV: Managing and Analyzing Data 7. Part V: Understanding Power Pivot and Power Query 8. Part VI: Automating Excel 9. Index
10. End User License Agreement

CHAPTER 28
Linking and Consolidating Worksheets

In this chapter, we discuss two procedures for using data from other workbooks or worksheets: linking and consolidating. Linking is the process of using references to cells in external workbooks to get data into your worksheet. Consolidating involves combining or summarizing information from two or more worksheets (which can be in multiple workbooks).

Linking Workbooks

Excel allows you to create formulas that contain references to other workbook files. With such formulas, the workbooks are linked in such a way that one depends on the other. The workbook that contains the external reference formulas is the dependent workbook (because it contains formulas that depend on another workbook). The workbook that contains the information used in the external reference formula is the source workbook (because it's the source of the information...

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