How to refer to the text of a shape in another page

Question

I have two shapes, masterShape on the page Data and slaveShape on the page ESB. I mention that the Name & NameU of my pages are the same. I already read a lot about this (See here for example).

My goal is to make the text of slaveText equal to this of masterText.

I read a lot about referencing pages and fields, but seemingly not enough.

I start with the two shapes on the same page. When the two shapes are on the same page, I can assign a field to the slaveShape with this custom formula =SHAPETEXT(masterShape!TheText) so that it gives the expected result. Yes.

How to access this shape with a page reference?

I tried this:

• =SHAPETEXT(ThePage!Softwares!TheText) -> Error in formula (and should not meet the requirements)
• =SHAPETEXT(Pages[Data]!Softwares!TheText) -> Bad ShapeSheet Name

Yet this code in VBA gives the expected text:

Debug.Print ActiveDocument.Pages("Data").Shapes("Softwares").Text

Any idea to convert this VBA into a formula using =SHAPETEXT(...)?

Answer 1

Please use syntax with ID instead shape name. This syntax looks like

=SHAPETEXT(Pages[Data]!Sheet.740!TheText) 

But you must find ID of master shape.