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With this Excel trick you can use a formula to show all the external links in your Excel workbook in one place. This way you can keep an eye on where the data is coming from and if any link is pointing to the wrong workbook.
With this Excel hack you can also write a formula to get the list of files from a specific directory and bring it to your Excel sheet. So if you're waiting for your colleague to add a file to a directory, you'll be able to see it in your Excel formula results once you refresh the list.

The fun part about this Excel trick is it combines 4.0 Excel Macros with Excel dynamic arrays. You can use the Excel Transpose function to get a vertical list of external links for file names.

Key Points:
- Track External Links: Learn a swift method to list all external links in a workbook, bypassing the traditional step-by-step approach.
- Dynamic Array Spill Feature: Utilize Excel's latest calculation engine to get a spilled range of links, displaying them horizontally or vertically using the transpose function.
- Creating Custom Excel 4.0 Macros: Discover how to create names for Excel 4.0 macros to perform specific functions, such as 'Get Links' and 'Get Files'.
- File Directory Listing: See how to generate a list of all file names in a specified directory, using wildcards and dynamic arrays.
- Sorting and Filtering Data: Explore the use of the SORT function and file extensions to organize and filter the list of files.
- Saving Files with Macros: Understand the importance of saving files with Excel 4.0 macros as an XLSM file to retain new functionalities.

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