Combine the Input

As each department returns its completed worksheet, you need to add it to a workbook in which you can calculate the combined results. Copy each worksheet of budget projections into your consolidation workbook.

Make sure you get the right kinds of data   For more control over the workbooks you distribute to your co-workers, you can set each cell to limit the allowable range of values, or to accept only a specific data type. This way you can avoid, for example, someone mistakenly entering a value that is too large for a given budget category. For more information, see Validate Your Data as You Enter It. View all your workbooks at once   You can quickly arrange all the open workbooks on the screen by clicking Arrange (Window menu).