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9.0

Pull data from user selected workbooks

Asked by Jenckes in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Applications

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I need to pull in data from multiple files.  I would like an input box to prompt the user to browse to the workbooks that will be referenced.  The user will be able to select as many workbooks as needed.  Once the workbooks are selected the user will input what sheets and cells of data must be pulled.  Each query will be labeled by the user.  It would be nice to have sometype of error check that would run through the selected files and if the named sheets were not present in one of the workbooks it would open that specific workbook and the user could select the appropriate sheet from that workbook.  If the  user would like they could assign different sheets and cells for any of the workbooks after the intial input.   Possibly the data extracted  could remain linked so that any changes to the workbooks in those queried cells will remain live data.  

This is the information I believe would need to be stored that the user could manually manipulate to change sheet names and cell references.                                
                                    SheetX    SheetX  
                                    Cell A3    Cell B4
Workbook Name 1          
                                   
                                    SheetX     SheetX
                                     Cell A3     CellB4
Workbook Name 2          

                                   
                                   SheetX      SheetY
Workbook Name 3      Cell A3      CellB5  
                                       

Output

                                 Sales Data    Earnings Data
Workbook Name 1       1000               500
Workbook Name 2       1522                600
Workbook Name 3        555                 700Start Free Trial
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