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Old September 24th, 2003, 11:31 PM
Duane Lugdon
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Default Cell references and sorts

I am a relative newbie to Excel. I have created an
extensive sheet filled with data. I have copied subsets
of data to a series of other sheets rather than
constantly hiding and unhiding ranges for easy viewing.
The problem is that if I perform a "sort" in the original
data then the data in the subset sheets becomes
unrelaible. I want cell A20 in the subset sheet to
always equal the data in the original data cell B50 - - -
even if B50 moves by virtue of a sort in the original
data ranges. How do I do this?
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Old September 25th, 2003, 03:19 AM
Ron
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Default Cell references and sorts

Duane,
Use your data as the source for a pivot table. A Pivot table will allow
you to manipulate the data very easily. I would create a tab for each
"view" and have a separate Pivot table using the same source. You can then
sort and autofilter the large database and the subset tabs will not be
effected.

Ron



"Duane Lugdon" wrote in message
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I am a relative newbie to Excel. I have created an
extensive sheet filled with data. I have copied subsets
of data to a series of other sheets rather than
constantly hiding and unhiding ranges for easy viewing.
The problem is that if I perform a "sort" in the original
data then the data in the subset sheets becomes
unrelaible. I want cell A20 in the subset sheet to
always equal the data in the original data cell B50 - - -
even if B50 moves by virtue of a sort in the original
data ranges. How do I do this?



 




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