Links updating screwed up my spreadsheet!

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  1. 2016
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I have a workbook with several data pages, one for each client and hundreds of lines of data for each. I created a summary page to automatically pull the data I need into a single sheet. I am using a lot of Countif and Countifs as I need to know the number of times Yes or No appears in a column. It has worked pretty well.
Today I got a message about updating my links. I clicked update, and now none of the links to the other sheets work. The formulas have not changed, and when I click on it, it highlights the right sheets, but returns no value. For example, On my summary page, I have a formula entered: =countifs('CompanyA'!$A:$A,Summary!$B3,'CompanyA'!D:D,Summary!$C3) Summary B3 = July, and there are 15 instances of July appearing on sheet 'CompanyA' column D:D. But it returns zero. Not sure why this is happening. Help? Everything was working fine until this external update happened.

Thank you!
 

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Update links appear when you link formula with another workbook located at different location / same location. Try locating those sheet . If you still cant find then it wont work. otherwise you need to map formula located in same workbook only.
 
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That’s the challenge. All the links I programmed in point to other sheets in the same workbook. Nothing outside the workbook. I simply have a summary page as my first worksheet and then about 30 worksheets after it that the summary page references.
 
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If the data is appearing on other sheets and summary not working then just try to map just one formula and check whats happening
 
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okay. When I delete one of the formulas, and then re-enter it on the summary page, still pulls nothing. No error either.
 
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check if auto formula on is selected on workbook.
 
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I figured it out. My assistant added a space after the month name. It was looking for the month name without a space.

argh. Thank you @earthworm for your help! So appreciated!
 
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