Cell linking between multiple sheets

Shawn Roberts · 12/17/15

I have 2 sheets I am working with that both have columns titled "Delivery Date". Sheet #1 is my "Initial Order" sheet, where I leave the "Delivery Date" blank. Sheet #2 is for my Production Manager. He also has a column titled "Delivry Date". When he enters what he expects the "Delivery Date" to be based on current production, I want it to automatically link to my "Initial Order" Sheet. It seems like I can only link cells that currently have data in them.

Are there any solutions?

Rob van Dijk · 12/18/15

Hi Shawn, an idea can be to fill this field with a phantom date, like 1900-01-01. That makes clear, also to your PM, that the date needs to be filled in. An extra color via Conditional Formatting can help..

Christine Oakes · 12/18/15

Shawn

A little secret - change the background color of the column to white - or any color you'd like. You can then link to it.

Christine

Tim Meeks · 12/18/15

Either of the ideas above will work. Also, I saw this in the Cell Linking article:

http://help.smartsheet.com/customer/en/portal/articles/861579-cell-linking

NOTE: Linking occurs at the cell level, as opposed to the sheet, row, or column level. Only existing cells that contain data, or previously contained data, can be linked into a destination sheet.

You could enter data, save the sheet, set up the cell linking and then delete the data.

Tim

Shawn Roberts · 12/19/15

Rob, Christine, Tim,

Thank you all for your responses. I tried all 3 suggestions, and all seem to work. Thank you again.

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