Referencing cells in different documents.

Is it possible to reference cells in a different document? This is very important for me and if it's not possible I'll have to go back and use Excel again.

There is a workaround, although I agree that you might just be better off with Excel.
I have a similar setup here. I have setup a friend's business in Numbers. The original plan was to set up all of his clients with a separate sheet in a single Numbers file. That became unworkable. Each client needed his own workbook. So to create daily and monthly totals, I use Applescript to read the appropriate data from each client's file (all the clients are in a single folder), and fill in a spreadsheet for me in the middle of the night. Next morning, he's got a fresh, updated totals sheet.
It's not exactly real-time data, but it is updated nightly. There are plenty of gurus here who know Applescript far better than I do (although I can work my way through a script) and will be able to help you along.
An advantage of Applescript is that there's no parallel to it that I'm aware of in Windows. Applescript can speak with mulitple programs and make them all work together for a task. I've got one that talks to my friend's calandar app, address book, and email app to send confirmations to his clients.
Vince

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Referencing cells in other documents?

Is there a way to have a cell reference the value of a cell in another Numbers document?

I do it by typing "=" then use the mouse to navigate to the correct sheet & cell. You could type it your self but you have to know how many spaces separate the Sheet Name, etc...
Regards,

Referencing cells in different file

Hi all,
Is it possible to reference a cell in another file?
Ziv

Hello
Yes, it is … but not with the applications embedded in iWork'08.
If you want this feature in Numbers, *_Go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu_*, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait for iWork'09
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 28 décembre 2007 17:18:23)

I have two cell phone, different numbers. Each has their own apple id. How can i merge them so apps on one show on the other but keep their emails addresses separate on their own phone?

Have two cell phones, different numbers. Each has their own apple id. How can I merge them so apps purchased on one phone show on the other. But.as each has their own email address, I want to keep these email addresses separate on their own phone? Thanks.

We do this in my family now. We have one account for purchases, so it is used to share music and apps (I think that is in Settings/iTunes & App Stores). Each iDevice has this configured.
Then, each of us has our own iCloud account that is configured under Settings/iCloud. That then allows us to have our own Mail/Contacts/Calendars/Reminders/Safari Bookmarks/Notes/Passbook/Photo Stream/Documents & Data/Find My iPhone/and Backup. That Backup piece is pretty sweet and comes in handly if you replace your iDevice. You can just restore from it.
So we all share the Apple Store account but we all have our own iCloud accounts to keep the rest seperate or things like you mentioned are a nightmare.
In answer to what iCloud does for you: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Think of it as an internet based ("cloud") area for all of those items listed in my response. What you need to remember is photo stream only maintans the last 1000 pictures so don't count it as a complete backup solution for your pictures. Even though I rarely sync with a computer these days, I do still try to sync my phone with iPhoto (I have an iMac) so that I have copies of all of my pictures. 1000 may not stretch as far as it sounds.
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How do I use values form different documents on numbers?

I have two problems: When I open an Excel worksheet that has references to other spreadsheets, Numbers automatically turns these cells into formulas with the wrong reference, giving therefore the wrong values. How do I prevent or change this?
I also do not know how to use data from different documents on a spreadsheet

As it seems that you didn't understood, I repeat :
there is no built-in feature allowing us to exchange datas between two different documents.
So, what you get when you import an Excel document embedding external links is the designed behavior.
Here you are speaking to end users like you. We can't change the app behaviour.
If you need to work with linked XL documents, Numbers is not the good tool.
Download and use the free LibreOffice.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 8 décembre 2011 09:34:23
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Cross-references in a different document

We have used FrameMaker for years (currently Version 7.1). We are in the process of switching to InDesign (CS5).
One current project is a print catalog where I put each section in a different document. One of the sections is a list of book titles. Another section is an index of authors and books by each author, with a page number cross-referencing each title with its entry in the title section.
In FrameMaker, when I open the author document, I can update all the references at once by pointing to the title document.
I don't see an easy way to do this in InDesign. Is it possible to update all cross-references at once?
Furthermore, in researching the problem on the Internet, I came across multiple comments that suggested that it's not a good idea to use cross-references across multiple documents in InDesign. Is this true, or was it only a problem in previous versions of InDesign?
Thanks for the help!

I think you should head over to the scripting forum and ask over there. Dave Saunders has just finished a huge project with thousnads of cross-refs to external docs and he might have some scripting ideas that would help you.

Numbers: linking cells in different tables

In Numbers, how can you copy the value from a cell in Table 1 to a cell in Table 2? The two cells must be linked so that when the value changes in Table 1 it changes in Table 2 as well.
Thanks,
Striped Trousers

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.
Glad you are on your way.
Jerry

Linking cells in different spreadsheets

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.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Maria

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.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Is it a living link that you wish to get ?
If it is, the response is:
no living link between different documents.
Between two tables from the same document, you may build living links.
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.
In cell B2 of table 1 of sheet 5 you will get the formula
=sheet 1::table 12 :: B2
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 23 janvier 2008 22:26:56)

Question re: colors mismatching in two different documents

Hey all,
I use Photoshop (CS2) primarily for coloring illustrations and comics, and although I'm not quite a technophobe, I still always get tripped up on the technicalities of the program. Here's my problem in a nutshell: I have two different documents, both with the same color profile (Adobe RGB 1998), both open at the same time. I use the eyedropper to select a color. I switch from one document to the other, and the color as it's displayed changes rather dramatically (even though the color picker says it's still the same - 190R, 120G, 120B). The shift in how the color is displayed is consistent even if I change it using the picker or eyedropper - which is to say that the display error is consistently wonky from one document to the other.
What in the world is causing this? The saturation and brightness are quite different from one document to the other, to the point where it's immediately noticeable to the naked eye. This only happens with certain docs - in most cases, the color remains consistent from one doc to the other if I have multiple docs open, but it just goes wonky when I move over to certain docs. I've had this problem before, with colors displaying differently as jpegs, for example, than as tiffs in Photoshop, but that's obviously a correctable issue involving color profiles. I find it really frustrating that this is something that's happening from one tiff to another in the Photoshop work environment. Can anybody help me with this?

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Check again. Click the little arrow at the bottom of the document frame:
Also make sure that you have Color Management Policies set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles" (which is also the default setting). Any other setting is an unholy mess waiting to happen, unless you really know what you're doing.

Can I backup two devices (with different documents) to one iCloud account? For example: iPad and iPhone, not everything is synced between the two, but I would like to backup each (seperately in the cloud), is this possible?

Hello Apple Community,
Can I backup two devices (with different documents) to one iCloud account?
For example: iPad Air and iPhone 5, not everything is synced between the two, but I would like to backup each (seperately in the cloud). Is this possible?
This way when I change from an old ipad to a new, I can restore with the ipad backup, and when I change from an old iphone to a new, I can restore from the
iphone backup.
Thank you in advance!

Terminology check here. Do you really mean a "CD"? There's a difference in Cloud behavior between content from a physical CD you ripped (which only has Cloud content if you have iTunes Match) and an "album" you bought from the iTunes Store.
Read references for Home Sharing.
iTunes: How to share music and video - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2688 - about Music Sharing and Home Sharing
Home Sharing Support page - http://www.apple.com/support/homesharing/
iOS: Setting up Home Sharing on your device - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4557 - "With Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 or later, you can stream your entire iTunes library over your home Wi-Fi network from your Mac or PC right to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch."
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Is there a way to order printing between two different documents?

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I have a master data one time vendor with payment method C and havenu2019t flag in u201CIndividual pmntu201D.
Posting two documents (Vendor invoices) with different address of the one time vendor mandatory, but the same payment method.
When I run F110: select one time vendor in parameter for payment method C, the program will create different documents (two) for the different address in invoices (but de one time vendor is the same).
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We have a scenario where a particular vendor payable is in two different document types for example, RE and KZ.
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