Linking Excel Sheets to a Summary Page (4 Easy Methods)

While working with Microsoft Excel, you may have dealt with several sheets in your workbook. However, if you need to link Excel sheets to a summary page, you can utilize these worksheets. Today, in this article, we’ll learn four quick and suitable ways for linking Excel sheets to a summary page effectively with appropriate illustrations.

Linking Excel Sheets to a Summary Page: 4 Suitable Ways

Let’s say, we have a dataset that contains information about several Sales Representatives of the Armani group. The Name of the Sales Representatives, their Identification number, and the revenue earned in several quarters by the Sales Representatives are given in columns B, C, and D respectively. We have several sheets which contain the sales statement for several quarters. The name of those sheets is Quarter 1, Quarter 2, Quarter 3, and Quarter 4. We will link those sheets using the Hyperlink command, consolidate command, and so on. Here’s an overview of the dataset for today’s task.

1. Use Consolidate Command to Link Excel Sheets to a Summary Page

In this section, we will apply the Consolidate command to link Excel sheets to a summary page. This is an easy and time-saving task. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Step 1:

First, select the cell After that, from your Data ribbon, go to,

Data → Data Tools → Consolidate

As a result, a Consolidate dialog box will appear in front of you. From the Consolidate dialog box, firstly, type ‘Quarter 1’!$B$4:$D$14 in the Reference Further, press Add option.

Similarly, Add the rest of the sheet value. After that, check the Top row, Left column, and Create links to source data like the below screenshot. At last, press OK.

Finally, you will be able to link Excel sheets to a summary page which has been given in the below screenshot.

Now, we will sum up the total revenue earned by the sales representatives using the SUM function like the below screenshot. The return of the SUM function is $5,270,036.00.

Step 2:

After linking Excel sheets to a summary page, we will check whether it works or not. To do that, firstly, change any value of the source data. We will change the revenue earned by Samuel Jhonson from $51,371.00 to $71,371.00.

Hence, we will notice that the total revenue earned is changed from $5,270,036.00 to $5,290,036.00 automatically which has been given in the below screenshot.

2. Perform Hyperlink Command to Link Excel Sheets to a Summary Page

Now, we will apply the Hyperlink command to link Excel sheets to a summary page. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Step 1:

First, select the cell After that, from your Insert ribbon, go to,

Insert → Links → Link

As a result, an Insert Hyperlink dialog box will appear in front of you. From the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, firstly, select Place in This Document under the Link to Further, select ‘Quarter 1’ under the Or select a place in this document drop-down list. At last, press OK.

Hence, you will be able to link the ‘Quarter 1’ sheet with the Summary_Hyperlink sheet in cell B5.

Similarly, you can link the rest of the sheets with the Summary_Hyperlink sheet like the below screenshot.

Step 2:

Click on any of the cells and it will take you to the respected worksheet.

And our job is done!

3. Define Selection Portion to Link Excel Sheets to a Summary Page

The easiest way for linking Excel sheets to a summary page giving the name of the selected portion. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Steps:

First of all, select cells B5 After that, give a name of the selected range, and the name is Group. To do that, press on the left-top box and type that name like the below screenshot.

After that, select cell B5 and type the below formula. The formula is,

=Group

Hence, simply press ENTER on your keyboard, and you will get the return of that function with linking.

After linking Excel sheets to a summary page, we will check whether it works or not. To do that, firstly, change any value of the source data. We will change the revenue earned by Samuel Jhonson from $51,371.00 to $61,371.00.

Hence, we will notice that the revenue earned by Samuel Jhonson is changed from $51,371.00 to $61,371.00 automatically which has been given in the below screenshot.

4. Linking Excel Sheets to a Summary Page Manually

Last but not least, we will link Excel Sheets to a summary page. From our dataset, we can easily do that. Let’s follow the instructions below to learn!

Steps:

First of all, select cell C5 and type =.

Hence, go to the ‘Quarter 1’ sheet, and select cell D15.

After that, simply press ENTER on your keyboard, and you will be able to link the ‘Quarter 1’ sheet with the sheet named Summary.

Similarly, linking the sheets ‘Quarter 2’, ‘Quarter 3’, and ‘Quarter 4’ with the sheet named Summary which has been given in the below screenshot.

Now, we will sum up the total revenue earned by the sales representatives using the SUM function like the below screenshot. The return of the SUM function is $2,762,760.00.
To check whether the linking works or not, simply repeat step 2 of method 1.

Things to Remember

➜ While a value can not found in the referenced cell, the #N/A! error happens in Excel.

➜ #DIV/0! error happens when a value is divided by zero(0) or the cell reference is blank.

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Linking Sheets to a Summary Page.xlsx

Conclusion

I hope all of the suitable methods mentioned above to link Excel sheets to a summary sheet will now provoke you to apply them in your Excel spreadsheets with more productivity. You are most welcome to feel free to comment if you have any questions or queries.

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