Mastering the Art of Linking: Boost Productivity and Efficiency with Excel and MS Office Techniques

Linking between spreadsheets, workbooks, and applications offers huge efficiencies but needs a clear understanding to work accurately and avoid risks that linking can pose.

Understand and apply the power of linking techniques within Excel and other key MS Office applications to boost productivity and efficiency for you and your organization.

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) makes content that is created in one location or program available in another program.

As an example, in Excel, you can link or reference to other cells in a worksheet or other worksheets, external workbooks, external files, and pages on the internet or your intranet.

Dynamic links ensure changes in source data, graphics, charts, etc. are reflected in all “dependent linked” files. Proficiency in link management is a vital marketable skill that equips you to master the linking of information using MS Office and MS Excel.

• Use data more efficiently and effectively
• Ensure improved data accuracy
• Improve job satisfaction, team performance, and professionalism
• Impress your management, peers, and clients
• Advance all co-workers using MS Office to a consistent standard
• Maximize your technology investment performance

• The link between Excel worksheets and external files
• Relative Vs absolute references
• Complex formulas linked to external data
• Formula Auditing
• Update linked values
• Change the link source
• Open a source file
• Break links
• Link information and graphics between Excel, Access, and other programs
• Hyperlink to other workbook cells, external files, and web pages

Any person or organization seeking to significantly boost efficiency, productivity, job satisfaction, and effective use of their technology investment. Particularly personnel in the following fields:

• Accounting
• Banking
• Business Analysis
• Economics
• Finance
• Insurance
• Investment
• Management
• Statistics
• Valuation