Referring to cells in another file

I'm trying to link to values inside cells to a different Numbers file. Is this possible? I've searched the forums, the web, and the help file of Numbers but couldn't find an answer.
In Excel, I simply pressed the equal sign, browsed the file and clicked the cells i needed.
Thanks in advance!

Hello
At this time this feature is unavailable.
Maybe it will be unavailable for ever because the Numbers'team may think that there is no need for such a feature as we may gather what we where accustomed to put in different documents in a single Numbers one.
For instance, I gathered my annual checkbooks in a single documents and I divided every annual one in monthly tables.
If you really want this feature,
go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu
and describe what you want and why you need it.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 29 octobre 2007 14:33:14)

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Ken Herington wrote:
This might sound like a really easy question for you guys but I am new to using numbers. When I select a cell to enter a formula and refer to a cell eg C2, and multiply it by another cell (D2), i keep getting an error message which says " the operator "*" expects a number, but cell 'Mass (kg)' Jupiter contains a string". It is like it thinks I am referring to the cells which have the titles in them, Mass (kg) is cell C1 and D1 is what says Jupiter but i want it to multiply the numbers that are in cells C2 and D2.
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=C2*D2 Placed in any cell (except C2 or D2) will return the product of the numbers in C2 and D2, provided both cells either contain numbers or are empty.
=C*D Placed in any cell in row 2 (except C2 or D2) will return the product of the numbers in C2 and D2, provided both cells either contain numbers or are empty.
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