Linking Data: The Foundation of Seamless Data Transfer Linking data between worksheets and different Excel files is a fundamental skill that forms the foundation of automated data transfer.

How to Link Rows Together in Excel. In addition to storing typed data in each cell of a spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel allows you to perform functions on one cell and show the result in another cell.

Links Between Workbooks To link to cells in separate Excel files, open both files. Click the cell you want to modify and type an equals sign.

A: Excel allows you to create links automatically by dragging and dropping data between workbooks, and I sometimes find this approach helpful, especially when the workbooks are displayed side by side.