Jul 16 2019 03:23 PM
So for a long time I have just used AutoSum to link up a field from another worksheet or workbook and it's pretty tedius. So this old dog is trying to find a better way. The project is a Reporting methodology for Privately held Loans.
The Borrower WorkBooks are for each of 8 Borrowers which have around 5 to 10 Loan Worksheets for Each loan that are calculating interest accruals and/or any interest or principal payments made and one Consolidated Worksheet that serves as a general overview of all of the different loans within that Borrower WorkBook.
There are 3 different Entities doing the Lending with one Overview WorkBook that provides an overview of all the loans outstanding and the important totals in two Overview WorkSheets (2 Entities on one and 1 on the other).
Monthly - I pull up the various spreadsheets and do calculations or entries in the individual Borrower Worksheets, but having those changes update in the Overview WorkBook is proving challenging.
Okay so don't judge, but I created those relationships between the WorkSheets or WorkBooks using the AutoSum button on the main Home Bar - once for each field that links with the appropriate field on the corresponding workbook. A lotta fields... Updates when opening the Overview WorkBook is not working properly. Every year too, I have to redo all those links - Couple hundred of them. . If I have to add another borrower or Loan - More tracking down and updating links... Ruff!
I briefly popped onto the site and watched a couple of tutorials on Get & Transform and Power Pivot but I'm not really certain how that works exactly; if it's the right method or how to apply it in this situation. SO my specific request is to ask you all awesome excel spreadsheet Gods and Goddesses:
I've attached a couple of PDF examples of the spreadsheets that I've got so far.
Thank you ever so much for your help!
Renee - Barking on the Porch!
Jul 17 2019 03:24 AM
Hard to tell.
It sounds like you might want VBA to help import the data, create a backend table of data, then your reports can run from that. My bread and butter but is complicated depending on structure of workbook.
Maybe a way more up your street if you understand links, and willing to learn power query.
1. Setup a "backend" table to get your data into 1 row on the individual workbook.
2. On your "Main" workbook, make a folder query to pick up .xlsms with those tables.
I've attached some examples
You will need to amend one of the folder path to your folder.
Hopefully this helps?
Alistair Blades - Bespoke Excel