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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