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best way to reference a file location 1

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srogers

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Aug 15, 2000
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Hi-
I am setting up workbook(A) (a collection of summary figures) that will reference 4 other workbooks. There will be about 3900 references (individual cells) in workbook(A) to these 4 other workbooks. I'm thinking ahead to a time when they might move one of the files to another drive and I don't want this to become a nightmare to maintain.

I'll bet someone has asked this before so I tried searching through the posts but perhaps did not use the correct phrase.

What do you guys think would be the best way to do this? Can I create 4 variables for each of the workbooks and use that instead of the file path? (if so, what do you Dim a file location as?) or there is probably some other option I haven't thought of?

Thank you -
 
1. Could use Edit/links
2. Could use Excel normal behaviour that if source and target file are both open and source file is renamed, the target file links are automatically updated.



Regards
BrianB
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