Hi :) Wow! That really does sound like something that would be better handled by a database. Plus it sounds as though you have already made the most difficult step that most people have with databases which is the conceptualisation in your brain. Most people never get that far.
Please forgive me my excitement but i just thought this was a heavy and intractable spreadsheet issue which i tend to find very, very dull. The "Start" sheet would be the table of data. All the other sheets would be Forms/Reports built up from Queries. Initially people would probably feel more comfortable using the Queries directly as they look like a spreadsheet. Forms&Reports display the same info in a prettier gui so they might get built-up later. Queries are probably easier to work with and are clearer about exactly how they choose which data to show from the table. It's probably easier to modify or tweak Queries if things change in the future. I take it the information in "Start" is confidential? Is it possible for you to let us see the formulas of 1 or 2 of the other sheets? or even just a couple of the formulae from 1 of the sheets that reads the data? This list doesn't handle attachments so either copy and paste a couple directly into email/message or use Nabble? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 25/2/12, PDA1 <pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> wrote: From: PDA1 <pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Too many sheets? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 25 February, 2012, 12:49 Yes, all of the spreadsheets are needed. I have a main sheet named START wherein all of the "data" is entered, such as names and birth dates. Then on each of the 35 sheets an array has been created which shows all of the data that was entered in the sheet named START. But....as each sheet is specific to a certain person (and not all people) only that persons "data" will appear on a given sheet in the cells that I want them to. Here's how it appears- Spreadsheet at the top (starting at A1) (let's call the sheet CARLTON) wherein all of the information from the sheet START appears. Below that spreadsheet CARLTON with all of the data is an array that shows ALL of the data from the sheet START. CARLTON has cells with formulas that get the necessary information/data from the array below it. Does that make any sense? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Too-many-sheets-tp3769750p3774891.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
