Importrange won't allow multiple imports of the same column from different files-CodePudding

We're having the following issue in Google Sheets: we have a couple dozen contributors, each from a different business unit, inputting data in different copies of the exact same file. We want to use importrange to query the same column for each copy of the excel file, into a master file. So basically, we need to import several times "column G2:57" indifferent columns. But this seems to break the formula, as each new formula seems to believe that it is overwriting the next one and throws and error prompt.

Is there a workaround, or a part of the formula I'm missing?

I was expecting that each instances of =importrange would import and keep updated column G in a different column. I tried wit =Query({importrange("link 1":"tab!G2:57"); importrange("link 2":"tab!G2:57")}), but this tries to import both columna into the same one.

CodePudding user response：

The reference G2:57 does not point to column G but to rows 2:57 of all columns to the right of column G inclusive. To refer to rows 2:57 column G, use G2:G57.

To make your formula work, try something like this:

={ 
  importrange("link 1", "tab!G2:G57"), 
  importrange("link 2", "tab!G2:G57"), 
  importrange("link 3", "tab!G2:G57") 
}

This formula will import the three columns side by side.