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<p class="Paragraph">You can also reference a cell in another spreadsheet:</p>
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<p class="P2">Open an existing spreadsheet, or insert some numbers and text in a new spreadsheet and save it on the hard disk. For this example, the document is named 'C:.sdc'; and the sheet that it contains is Sheet1.</p>
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<p class="P2">Open a new spreadsheet document.</p>
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<p class="P2">Place the cursor in cell A1 and enter the following formula: ='C:.sdc'#Sheet1.A1</p>
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<p class="P2">Alternatively, you could also enter the file name as a URL designation: ='file:///C|/test.sdc'#sdc#'Sheet1.A1. You can access a file in the Internet similarly: ='http://www.sun.com/test/test.sdc'#Sheet1.A1 (this is a fictional example).</p>
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<p class="P2">Now, drag the box in the lower right corner of the active cell to select a range of cells. <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> automatically inserts the corresponding references in the adjacent cells. As a result, the sheet name is preceded with a "$" sign to designate it as an absolute reference.</p>