Best way to link two worksheets in excel- vba - excel

I am looking for the best way to "link" two worksheets together. I have a main worksheet where information and data is added and then I would like to have two basic worksheets that draws columns from main spreadsheet. Whenever changes are made to the main sheet, they will also occur in the other two sheets. I was thinking of trying to activate a macro which automates hitting ctrl or shift and the two tabs like the below
sheets (Array("Main", "Summary")).select
But this failed to work as well. Its too much information for vlookups or anything like that so if anyone knows a way to have changes that occur in one sheet effect multiple other ones it would be much appreciated.
Thanks!!!

You have the worksheet.Change event for that. Something simple like the following:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("sheet2").Cells(Target.Row, Target.Column).Value = Target
End Sub
Will copy the value on every cell change from one sheet to another (the code goes in the sheet's private module).

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