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Linking and consolidating data in Excel workbooks is an important skill for those who use Excel on a regular basis. Our upcoming webinar discusses the Excel consolidate function which lets you select data from its various locations and creates a table to summarize the information for you. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Creating linked cells and grouping worksheets ·          Using 3-D references in summary functions ·          Creating external reference formulas Linking and Consolidating Data in Excel Workbooks  LEARNING OBJECTIVES We all collect data and store it in multiple workbooks and in multiple worksheets. Summarizing data within a single worksheet is done on a regular basis. But at times you may want to combine data from multiple workbooks and worksheets into a YTD summary or consolidate data from multiple wor...

OVERVIEW Excel provides the ability to connect a cell to data entered into another cell. A linked cell behaves as if it actually contains the data in the  original cel l. A reference that refers to the same cell or range on multiple sheets is called a  3-D reference . A 3-D reference is a useful and convenient way to reference several worksheets that follow the same pattern while cells on each worksheet contain the same type of data. Grouping worksheets is an important skill to have for many more reasons than creating  3-D formulas . consolidate data in excel Creating names for cells can make formulas between worksheets and workbooks much easier to understand and maintain. You can define a name for a cell range, function, constant, or table. A 3D named range is a name that spans more than one worksheet. Although you can copy and paste data from one Excel file to another, you can also create a link between two files or workbooks. When you create a link bet...