Are Excel links necessary?

We are a group trying to work inserting different areas of information into a
20 sheet workbook with macros. In an effort to allow all to work at once, we
made four working copies of the master workbook for each to work on. The
idea was, each would work on a different page, when finished copy the page
into the master, save the master as itself and a new working copy and
continue with another page not being worked on. Come to find out, each time
a page was copied and pasted into the master, a link was made back to the
working copy. Is there some way to copy pages of like formatted workbooks
without creating links, while keeping the macros and formulas of the
destination file intact?

Thanks.



ps. Does anyone know a way of getting e-mail tech assistance from Microsoft
once a claim has been started by phone (I had to hang up before someone could
help…1/2 hour at $1.80/min cell from Caymans….TOO MUCH!!)

Bill Manville answered your question in one of your other postings
in this group. Please post a question only once and most of us are
into several newsgroups so posting to multiple groups wouldn't do
you any good either.

In response to your other question, don't you find the help in the
newsgroups better than calling Microsoft, after all they have to field any
question they get; whereas, in a newsgroup we get to pick and choose
what questions we think we can answer.

On the other hand if you have a question that you really need Microsoft
to help you with you could be on the phone for hours.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

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We are a group trying to work inserting different areas of information into a
20 sheet workbook with macros. In an effort to allow all to work at once, we
made four working copies of the master workbook for each to work on. The
idea was, each would work on a different page, when finished copy the page
into the master, save the master as itself and a new working copy and
continue with another page not being worked on. Come to find out, each time
a page was copied and pasted into the master, a link was made back to the
working copy. Is there some way to copy pages of like formatted workbooks
without creating links, while keeping the macros and formulas of the
destination file intact?

Thanks.



ps. Does anyone know a way of getting e-mail tech assistance from Microsoft
once a claim has been started by phone (I had to hang up before someone could
help.1/2 hour at $1.80/min cell from Caymans..TOO MUCH!!)