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

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 +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")
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
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