Microsoft KB Archive/151320

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Putting Cell Contents from Closed Workbook to Active Workbook

Last reviewed: March 27, 1997
Article ID: Q151320

5.00 5.00c 7.00 | 5.00 5.00a

WINDOWS         | MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

With Visual Basic for Applications, the contents of a cell in a closed workbook cannot be directly put into a cell in an active workbook. However, you can do this indirectly by linking a cell in the active workbook to the cell in the closed workbook, and then copying that cell and pasting the value back, using the Paste Special command.

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The following line of code will put the contents of a cell in SOURCE.XLS into the active workbook only if SOURCE.XLS is open.

   Sheets("sheet1").Range("a1") =
   Workbooks("source.xls").Sheets("sheet1").Range("a1")

You can use the following macro to accomplish the same result with SOURCE.XLS not open.

   Sub Macro1()
      Sheets("sheet1").Range("a1").Formula =
      "='C:\Excel\[source.xls]Sheet1'!$A$1"   ' Link a cell to source.
      Sheets("sheet1").Range("a1").Copy       ' Copy linked cell.
      ' Paste value back into cell.
      Sheets("sheet1").Range("a1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlValues
      'Cancel Copy mode and remove the moving border.
       Application.CutCopyMode = False
   End Sub

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