Multiple people with their own excel files updating a single excel file all day long

[SandsB]

Looking for the best way to get started with a project. About 50 people in 2 different locations will be adding rows of data to their own basic excel files. The file is unique to each user so there will be about 50 files - updated every 10 minutes of so. Also every 10 minutes or so, I want the new data in those files to be added to the bottom of a single, master excel file. Sometimes there will be no new data in the individual files, sometimes more than 1 new row.

Looking for examples, tips, videos or something I should read up on to make this work properly.

 

[Logit]

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If each of the 50 employees will be working on their own copy of the workbook the entire day while the Master Workbook is attempting to retrieve the updated information,
you 'may' ... *may* ... experience errors in copying the updated data. Best advice is to test it in a controlled environment first with a Master Workbook and a single
remote user workbook.

If it works as expected, then you can expand the code in the Master Workbook to poll each user workbook every ten minutes to retrieve the updated data.


An alternative would be to use Microsoft's Cloud services. You can flip the process by having the users all access the Master Workbook on the Cloud. MS Cloud is designed
to have multiple users access the same file at the same time ... something Excel is not able to do on it's own in a network environment.