Dropdown list from other book

Jewelzzz00

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Can u have 10 shared workbooks using a single source workbook, for a dropdown menu;



but i need to have like 5 books open at a time from different computers over a network. Plus each one needs to have a functioning dropdown option.



Can this be done?
 

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You should be able to do it if the source list is linked in each one. You won't be able to do it without a physical list in each wb without vba, and over a network it probably won't be worth the lag.

And why do you have to have 5-10 shared workbooks open at the same time?
 
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HI,

i have different clients i represent. each with there own workbook, each client a different specialty but same field.

in each book (all the same layout) i input, bills and payments rcvd, etc and also generate different correspondence, depending on the items billed, and status.

i address all my correspondence to different insurance company's. (source book). the ins company are all the same for each client. i would like a central excel book for ins companies, located on the same server and folder as the other books. and then have a drop down in each client book.

we have about 30 different clients, each client has 1000's of bills, and 20 different correspondence letters.

we share all these workbooks, on a network server.

1 person can open a book at a time for editing (others can read-only) per client and work in it.

we have someone entering new bills, or another person entering payments, in another book. or following up, in a third book, printing a correspondence in a fourth,etc

ex.

susie is working on client ABC book and wants to send a correspondence to the ins co. , she opens ABC's book and the source book for insurance co. address. and makes her letters.
mean while
mary wants work on client EFG book and wants to send a correspondence to the ins co, she opens EFG's book and the source book and makes her letters.

one will have the original source open , the other will open a read-only source book.

will this cause errors in excel?
 
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