How to get JOIN working when referencing another sheet?
I'm using the JOIN formula, if I put the formula on the same sheet as my column references, it works just fine, however when I move this to a separate sheet and update the column references to the other sheet I get the error #UNPARSEABLE.
I haven't removed any of the formula delimiters only which sheet I'm referencing.
Any ideas on why I'm unable to get this to work cross-sheets would be greatly appreciated: Example of Formula when contained in 1 sheet:
=JOIN([Deployed Location - Office/Project]@row:[Deployed Location - Room Number]@row, " - ")
Example of Formula referencing separate sheet:
=JOIN({Sheet - Coolab/CoolFx/TC/CH4 Inventory Range 1}:[Sheet - Coolab/CoolFx/TC/CH4 Inventory Range 2}, " - ")
Answers
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Hi @pdv90
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You can add a so-called helper column that JOIN the columns in the other sheet, and then you'd collect it back to the main sheet.
Make sense?
Did that work/help?
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Hi Andree,
Thanks for your reply.
In fact I was already working with the helper column. I wanted to know why the JOIN function doesn't work on it's own and if I was doing anything wrong.
Thank you again!
Hope you have an amazing week yourself.
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I'm just linking the cell to the corresponding cell.
Haven't used Collect function.
To my understanding Collect has to be used within another function. Here I just need the alphanumeric values in one cell(the helper cell) to be replicated in another cell which is in another sheet.
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