[mso] Re: Help Needed with Excel Formula

I think you have your opening square bracket too early.

However, just open the two sheets and create the formula using the mouse to 
point at the other cell.  Much more reliable.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck H" <chawsey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:54 PM
Subject: [mso] Help Needed with Excel Formula


> Hi Everyone,
> Before anyone gets me for double posting, let me say that I posted this on 
> Win Tips and Tricks, didn't get a response, and realized that I should 
> have posted it to this site. Sorry.
> _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> It's my "excel formula" dilemma again! I am on a network. I have a 
> spreadsheet on my H drive, and I want the information from a cell on the W 
> drive to appear in a cell in the spreadsheet on the H drive. The path to 
> the folder on W drive is w:\employee files\accordantcare RN\2007\hawsey 
> chuck. The workbook is called hawsey, chuck.xls. The workbook page is 
> called annual and the cell is E6. In the excel cell on H drive, I'm 
> entering
>
> =('w:\employee files\accordantcare RN\2007\[hawsey,chuck, 
> hawsey.chuck.xls]summary'!E6)
>
> In other words, I want the number from the E6 cell on the W drive to 
> appear in the C25 cell in the workbook on my H drive. I've tried it with 
> and without all the apostrophes and quotes and such, and I simply cannot 
> make it work. I think I must be close, but not enough to get excel to try 
> and complete it for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chuck H.
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