Spreadsheets: how to reference a cell on a different sheet in Excel and in LibreOffice Calc

Tutoring spreadsheet usage, cell references are important.

Let’s imagine you want a1 in the first sheet of a workbook to have the value of b1 in sheet 2.

Here’s how you can do so with text:

  • Excel: type, in a1 of the first sheet, =sheet2!b1
  • LibreOffice Calc: type, in a1 of the first sheet, =sheet2.b1

HTH:)

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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