Auto update columns across sheets

Victor van R

Hi,

I use a form to collect details from participants. This goes in a participants sheet (1).

The name and the country of residence (and none of the other collected information) I want to use in another sheet (2) and add some other columns of information to them. So I linked the the columns in the new sheet (2) to the sheet (1) that collects the information with the form.

I see the link indicated (little blue triangle) in the sheet (2) but when new names are added in sheet (1), the sheet (2) is not updated.

How can I make this update in sheet (2) happen?

Thank you for your help.

Victor

Andrée Starå

Hi Victor,

I assume that you’ve used cell-linking between the sheets. If that is correct, it will not work because you can’t have the cell-link update when a new form submission is added.

You’d need to use VLOOKUP or an INDEX/MATCH combination instead.

Make sense?

Would that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå

Hi Victor,

I assume that you’ve used cell-linking between the sheets. If that is correct, it will not work because you can’t have the cell-link update when a new form submission is added.

You’d need to use VLOOKUP or an INDEX/MATCH combination instead.

Make sense?

Would that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Victor van R

Hi Andrée,

Yes, I used cell linking.

VLOOKUP. I will give it a try even though this spreadsheet knowledge is a bit rusty.

Thank you for your help and have a good and safe weekend too!

Victor

Andrée Starå

@Victor van R

You're more than welcome!

Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions!

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