Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-13 Thread Paul Stear
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
hunting! Regards from Tom :)  From: Paul Stear p...@appjaws.plus.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 16:06 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year Thank you again Brian

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Stear
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? Hope this is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:42 12/11/2012 +, Paul Stear wrote: On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 14:19:22 Brian Barker wrote: At 11:45 08/11/2012 +, 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-11 Thread Paul Stear
Brian, Thank you so much, I have been away so have not tried your solution yet but it does look good. I will test this in the morning, this could save me hours of work Thank again Paul On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 14:19:22 Brian Barker wrote: At 11:45 08/11/2012 +, Paul Stear wrote: I have the

[libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Stear
I have the same spreadsheet set I use each year. The new spreadsheet for 2013 will need to reference fields in the 2012 spreadsheet. ='file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-2012.ods'#$Jan.A68 The 2012 spreadsheet is referenced to 'file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-2011.ods'#$Jan.A68 For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 06:45 AM, 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. ='file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-2012.ods'#$Jan.A68 The 2012 spreadsheet is referenced to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:45 08/11/2012 +, 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