If you need to consolidate multiple worksheets as I discussed in Episode 832, you can skip consolidate and build a spearing or 3-D worksheet reference. Episode 834 shows you how.
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Transcript of the video:
Hey, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast, I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, on Tuesday, Episode 832, I showed you how to use the Consolidate Command to add up numbers from Q1 through Q4 into a summary sheet.
That was cool because it created the expandable and hide-able rows-- the detail rows-- but if you don't need that, if you just need the summary, we can use a spearing or 3D reference to grab those cells.
So we'll use =Sum, type the apostrophe-- we have to put this in apostrophe-- Q1:Q4.
And basically, what that's saying is we want to go everywhere from worksheet Q1 all the way to worksheet Q4, put the closing apostrophe and then an exclamation point, and the cell that we want-- we want Cell B4-- close the Sum command, (=Sum('Q1:Q4'!B4), and there's our answer.
We should be able to copy that now all the way through the worksheet, and each time it's going to sum up a different cell.
Pretty cool.
Just specifying the first and last worksheet, provided that all of the worksheets have the exact same structure-- that's the one important thing-- it will add up all of those worksheets, and you can save having to go to the Consolidate command.
I want to thank you for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
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Well, on Tuesday, Episode 832, I showed you how to use the Consolidate Command to add up numbers from Q1 through Q4 into a summary sheet.
That was cool because it created the expandable and hide-able rows-- the detail rows-- but if you don't need that, if you just need the summary, we can use a spearing or 3D reference to grab those cells.
So we'll use =Sum, type the apostrophe-- we have to put this in apostrophe-- Q1:Q4.
And basically, what that's saying is we want to go everywhere from worksheet Q1 all the way to worksheet Q4, put the closing apostrophe and then an exclamation point, and the cell that we want-- we want Cell B4-- close the Sum command, (=Sum('Q1:Q4'!B4), and there's our answer.
We should be able to copy that now all the way through the worksheet, and each time it's going to sum up a different cell.
Pretty cool.
Just specifying the first and last worksheet, provided that all of the worksheets have the exact same structure-- that's the one important thing-- it will add up all of those worksheets, and you can save having to go to the Consolidate command.
I want to thank you for stopping by, we'll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
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