The Complete Excel Guide: Beginners to Advanced - Working with Links

The video tutorial covers Excel's linking files feature, explaining how to create and manage links between files. It discusses the roles of source and dependent files, and demonstrates how to update, change, or break links. The tutorial also addresses handling startup prompts for link updates and prepares viewers for the next section on data consolidation.

What is the role of a dependent file in Excel linking?

• It depends on source files for data.

• It is used to create new data.

• It is independent and does not rely on other files.

• It contains the original data.

How can you update the values in a dependent file if the source files are already open?

• Delete and recreate the links.

• Use Excel's update values feature.

• Close and reopen the dependent file.

• Manually update each value.

What should you do if you want to replace a source file with a new one?

• Break the link and create a new one.

• Change the source to the new file.

• Rename the old file.

• Delete the dependent file.

What does the startup prompt in Excel allow you to do?

• Disable all links permanently.

• Create new links automatically.

• Automatically update all links without any prompt.

• Choose whether to display an alert for updating links.

What is the next topic introduced after discussing the startup prompt?

• Data consolidation.

• File management.

• Creating new links.

• Advanced formula writing.