How do I reference a cell range from one worksheet to another using excel formulas

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I have a single worksheet with sheets Sheet1 and Sheet2 and I am trying to reference a range of cells from Sheet2 to Sheet1  I know how to reference worksheet cells such as  Sheet2 A1  but how can I do the same for a cell range such as A1 F1 I tried  Sheet2 A1 F1 but it does not like the syntax   I need to use Excel Formulas for this if possible

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Ok Got it  I downloaded a custom concatenation function and then just referenced its cells  Code      Function concat useThis As Range  Optional delim As String  As String    this function will concatenate a range of cells and return one string    useful when you have a rather large range of cells that you need to add up  Dim retVal  dlm As String  retVal       If delim   Null Then  dlm       Else  dlm   delim  End If  For Each cell In useThis  if cstr cell value  lt  gt    and cstr cell value  lt  gt     then  retVal   retVal  amp  cstr cell Value   amp  dlm  end if  Next  If dlm  lt  gt     Then  retVal   Left retVal  Len retVal  - Len dlm    End If  concat   retVal  End Function

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The formula that you have is fine   But  after entering it  you need to hit Control   Shift   Enter  in order to apply it to the range of values   Specifically    Select the range of values in the destination sheet  Enter into the formula panel your desired formula  e g   Sheet2 A1 F1 Hit Control   Shift   Enter to apply the formula to the range

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Its quite simple but not easy to discover --- Go here to read more  its from the official microsoft website  Step 1 - Click the cell or range of the source sheet  that contains the data you want to link to   Step 2 Press Ctrl C  or go to the Home tab  and in the Clipboard group  click Copy  Button image    Step 3 Clipboard group on the Home tab  Step 4 Press Ctrl V  or go to the Home tab  in the Clipboard group  click Paste Link  Button  By default  the Paste Options  Button image button appears when you paste copied data   Step 5 Click the Paste Options button  and then click Paste Link

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Simple ---   I have created a Sheet 2 with 4 cells and Sheet 1 with a single Cell with a Formula    SUM Sheet2 B3 E3    Note  trying as you stated  it does not make sense to assign a Single Cell a value from a range  Send it to a Formula that uses a range to do something with it

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I rewrote the code provided by Ninja2k because I didn t like that it looped through cells  For future reference here s a version using arrays instead which works noticeably faster over lots of ranges but has the same result   Function concat2 useThis As Range  Optional delim As String  As String     Dim tempValues     Dim tempString     Dim numValues As Long     Dim i As Long  j As Long     tempValues   useThis     numValues   UBound tempValues    UBound tempValues  2      ReDim values 1 To numValues      For i   UBound tempValues  To LBound tempValues  Step -1         For j   UBound tempValues  2  To LBound tempValues  2  Step -1             values numValues    tempValues i  j              numValues   numValues - 1         Next j     Next i     concat2   Join values  delim  End Function   I can t help but think there s definitely a better way     Here are steps to do it manually without VBA which only works with 1d arrays and makes static values instead of retaining the references    Update cell formula to something like  Sheet2 A1 A15 Hit F9 Remove the curly braces   and   Place CONCATENATE  at the front of the formula after the   sign and   at the end of the formula  Hit enter

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You can put an equal formula  then copy it so reference the whole range  one cell goes into one cell    Sheet2 A1   If you need to concatenate the results  you ll need a longer formula  or a user-defined function  i e  macro     Sheet2 A1 amp Sheet2 B1 amp Sheet2 C1 amp Sheet2 D1 amp Sheet2 E1 amp Sheet2 F1

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If these worksheets reside in the same workbook  a simple solution would be to name the range  and have the formula refer to the named range   To name a range  select it  right click  and provide it with a meaningful name with Workbook scope   For example  Sheet1  A 1  F 1 could be named  theNamedRange   Then your formula on Sheet2  could refer to it in your formula like this   SUM theNamedRange    Incidentally  it is not clear from your question how you meant to use the range   If you put what you had in a formula  e g    SUM Sheet1 A1 F1   it will work  you simply need to insert that range argument in a formula   Excel does not resolve the range reference without a related formula because it does not know what you want to do with it   Of the two methods  I find the named range convention is easier to work with

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If you wish to concatenate multiple cells from different sheets  and you also want to add a delimiter between the content of each cell  the most straightforward way to do it is    CONCATENATE Sheet1 A4        Sheet2 A5    This works only for a limited number of referenced cells  but it is fast if you have only of few of these cells that you want to map

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