Automation with Excel question

Hello all,
I'm very new to the use of automator and I'm trying to see if this software can help in what I'm trying to do before I find out later on that it can't.
This is what I'm attempting to accomplish, I have a product that I create in excel I later take that product and input it into a different excelt product where specific information goes into certain blocks.
What I'm hoping to figure out is having automator take the information from certain cells in product 1 and copy/move or whatever it into the other workbook into specific cells.... Then continue down the list until complete.
Any information on this will help a ton.

Yes basically it could just be copy and pasted...
Workbook 1 has the information, A1 through A12 lets say has 1 block on information
B1 - B12 a different set
I would like something that would go through each set maybe for a set amount of likes and put the information into the 2nd workbook in specific areas.
This would create about 20-30 different sheet entries making creating this product on a daily basis a whole lot easier since it's printed out and written by hand at the moment.
Any suggestions as to what I can use to help these people accomplish this task faster and easier would be a great success.

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