I need help with linking cells

l KAUTION l

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I need to some how link a cell say "B2" to say cell d28.

This is how I linked it
='C:\excel\link\[Detail - week of 1-3-05.xls]Monday'!$D$28

Which works perfectly fine, except I would like to just drag that throught the rest of the A cells and have the week of date to change.

Cell B3 would look like this
='C:\excel\link\[Detail - week of 1-10-05.xls]Monday'!$D$28

Cell B4 would look like this
='C:\excel\link\[Detail - week of 1-17-05.xls]Monday'!$D$28

Is there any way I can make the date change as I drag down the cells?

The A cells contain the correct week of date something like this

1/3/05...........43
1/10/05.........41
1/17/05.........32

So is there a formula or something where I can do this
='C:\excel\link\[Detail - week of =A2.xls]Monday'!$D$28

And the A2 would change to A3, A4, etc...

Is there a way?
 

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Hi Kaution

The way I do it is, I copy the whole range and select paste special, paste link. The drag function should work also. Hope this is what you needed.
 
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When I drag it the date of the file stays the same. I need the date of the file to change. Is there any way to do this other than manually changing the date? It seems as if there would be an easier way.
 
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Ok I have another question. If someone could help with this I can figure the other one out.

Say cell A1:

=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'G:\folder\subfolder\[Group Detail Report - week of 1-3-05.xls]Monday'!$A$16:$F$35,2,FALSE)

And cell A2:

=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'G:\folder\subfolder\[Group Detail Report - week of 1-10-05.xls]Monday'!$A$16:$F$35,2,FALSE)

Is there a way where I can change cell A1 to:

=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'G:\folder\subfolder\[Detail Report - week of 1-3-05.xls]Tuesday'!$A$16:$F$35,2,FALSE)

Without doing it manually, like a macro or something. There are alot of records on the sheet. So that when I go to cell A2 I can make it:

=VLOOKUP("Avg Speed to Answer",'G:\folder\subfolder\[Detail Report - week of 1-10-05.xls]Tuesday'!$A$16:$F$35,2,FALSE)

Draging the cell down will not work. It will change the cells to week of 1-3-05, I need the different week of file, they contain different data.
 
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I am guessing this is either impossible or everyone is assuming the question has been answered and is skipping over the post.
Thanks for trying though.
 
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