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

Hi :)
You might have more fun with the official guides
wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
particularly the Calc Guide.  There are some 3rd party guides near the end of the page and other 
things that might be interesting.  Google might help you find some HowTo videos.
Happy hunting!
Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Paul Stear <paul@appjaws.plus.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 16:06
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year
>
> Thank you again Brian, yesterday I tried all-sorts to try and get this 
> working, looking at your solution I was nearly there. -- So much to learn.
> What is the best source for this sort of information?
> I would like to learn more and make my spreadsheets more efficient.
> I must admit that the help pages were a bit daunting and I couldn't relate the 
> example given to my problem.
>
> kind regards
> Paul
>
> On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012 05:00:05 Brian Barker wrote:
> > 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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