How link cells on different sheets?

I'M using Numbers 3.5 on a MBP.
How can I link a cell on sheet#1 to a cell on Sheet#2?

Don,
Your question is a little short on detail as to what you want to do, but I'll assume that you want the value in a cell in a table on one cheer to appear in a cell of a table on another sheet. In the cell where you ant to display the remote data, type and "=" and then click on the remote cell. The remote cell reference will be automatically placed in the calling cell.
The remote cell reference is written: =SheetName::TableName::CellAddress
For instance: =Sheet 2::Table 1::A1
Jerry

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Striped Trousers wrote:
Yes, Jerry, this is what I was attempting to do and I am surprised that Numbers doesn't allow this (you can 'link' cells in different files in Excel). I was beginning to realize this after your last message. I followed your instructions linking cells in the same sheet, and then linking cells in different sheets of the same file. Both worked a treat but as soon as I tried this with a different file, it wouldn't work.
This is something for Apple to work on I guess.
In the meantime, I will enter the value manually and get on with my life! My thanks again for your continued efforts to help.
Happy New Year!
ST.
ST,
Linking between documents can be a can of worms, and is certainly not something that we could label as a basic requirement of a spreadsheet program. In your case, especially, it's probably best practice to isolate the years and not have the documents dependent on one another. Numbers has some nifty features, but it's not the 2-pound Swiss Army knife app that Excel is. There certainly are times when linking between documents would be handy, such as when different aspects of a project are in separate documents and need to be summarized. This would only be the case if the overall project size was very large, or if the project was divided up between different users.
There are many more urgent needs, if the iWork team has time on their hands, such as improving the speed and capacity of the apps.
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Maria Folsom wrote:
I need to link cells from different spreadsheets but cannot find a command in Numbers to do this. In Excel it is "Copy" from the first spreadsheet and then "Paste Special" into the second spreadsheet. I cannot find this function in any of the manuals or help files.
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If it is, the response is:
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Assuming that you want to link cell B2 of table 1 of sheet 5
to cell B2 of table 12 of sheet 1
click in cell B2 of table 1 of sheet 5
type the character "="
cell B2 of table 12 of sheet 1
press return.
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this is the first time I use the support communities.
I have a continuing promblem with numbers ( v. 2.3). I'm working on a projekt for my univerity and are quite familiar with number. But at a certain point it get's impossible to link to another cell on a different sheet! This works fine until a certain point (which I actually don't know).....
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I apologises, I didn't take care to the fact that datas where grabbed from different sheets.
I tested with datas from different tables belonging to a single sheet.
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