- Refer to other sheets in conditional formating. You can only refer to the sheet where conditional formating is being applied.
- Refer to closed workbooks using indirect() function. It will return #Ref error when you refer to other workbooks in indirect function. By the way if you want to refer to some other workbook in your excel sheet, you can for example write,
='C:\something\someotherthing\morethings\mysheets\
[book1.xls]'sheet1!a1 - Name 2 workbooks with same value while they both are open.
Actually no easy workarounds exist for these, but as far as I know you can overcome second point by implementing VBA versions of indirect like pull() defined here and indirect.ext() here. Happy excelling 🙂
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How did you arrive or formula when you ask me who made more sales Jackie or Jamie?? I could not figure the formula out yet??
@Frank
You need to sum up the sales for Jackie and compare them to the sales of Jamie over the same period.
The practical parts depends on how and what data you have and how it is arranged.
But it will either involve a Sum, Sumif, Sumifs or Sumproduct to accummulate the sales for each within a specified date range.