Thank you again Brian, yesterday I tried all-sorts to try and get this
working, looking at your solution I was nearly there. -- So much to learn.
What is the best source for this sort of information?
I would like to learn more and make my spreadsheets more efficient.
I must admit that the help pages were a bit daunting and I couldn't relate the
example given to my problem.
kind regards
Paul
On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012 05:00:05 Brian Barker wrote:
> At 14:42 12/11/2012 +0000, Paul Stear wrote:
> >On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 14:19:22 Brian Barker wrote:
> >>At 11:45 08/11/2012 +0000, Paul Stear wrote:
> >>>I have the same spreadsheet set I use each year. The new
> >>>spreadsheet for 2013 will need to reference fields in the 2012
> >>>spreadsheet. For the past few years I have manually changed the
> >>>Readings-2012 in every instance (well over 100).
> >>>
> >>>I would like to be able to construct the spreadsheets with a
> >>>method to change the current year, eg 2013 minus 1 to give 2012
> >>>inserted so that the ref in the 2013 spreadsheet reads;-
> >>>='file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-2012.ods'#$Jan.A68
> >>>
> >>>Is this possible?
> >>
> >>Yes. You need to concatenate the required year value with the
> >>strings required before and after it. Suppose that you have the
> >>current year - 2013 in your example - in A1 of your new
> >>spreadsheet. You need to concatenate
> >>"'file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-" with A1-1 and
> >>".ods'#$Jan.A68". Note that the two single quotes are part of the
> >>string you are creating and the four double quotes delimit the two
> >>text strings, so the first string has a single quote immediately
> >>following its opening double quote. You can carry out this
> >>concatenation using the & operator:
> >>="'file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-"&A1-1&".ods'#$Jan.A68"
> >>(The numerical expression A1-1 is converted to a string value
> >>automatically.)
> >>
> >>You might expect this to work, but it doesn't. The formula above
> >>results in a text string which is interpreted literally and not as
> >>a cell reference to the other spreadsheet file. But the trick you
> >>need is available in the INDIRECT() function, which provides the
> >>necessary conversion. So the formula which works is
> >>=INDIRECT("'file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-"&A1-1&".ods'#$Jan.A68")
> >
> >Hi Brian,
> >Thank you so much, your solution works a treat.
> >
> >My spreadsheet consists of 15 pages each year, so my next question
> >is:- would it be possible to put the new year on page 1 named
> >"cover" in cell A2 and then change the "&A1-1&" to reference this on
> >for each instance on every page?
>
> Yes. You refer to a cell on another sheet as sheet.cell. So you
> would just need to use ...&cover.A2-1&... .
>
> Brian Barker
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