I emailed you but you may need to look under Spam because i used a different
email address.

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

Leslie,

It references C1 on the same sheet as the formula. Make sure that C1 has
exactly the same value as one of your month name cells: use copy and paste
values to do that.

Also, you may have had weird line wraps introduced by your newsreader
program, so take out any extra line breaks.

If you can't get it to work, I will send you two workbooks that have a
working example. Reply privately, and take out the spaces and change the
dot to . in my email address.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Leslie" wrote in message
...
Thanks again very much. Hopefully one last question... In the formula
does
C1 reference the worksheet in the destination workbook or in the original
workbook? The reason I am asking is because I entered the formula in my
new
worksheet and I am getting an error. It is looking at the Cell C1 in the
new
worksheet not the original. Thanks again I so much appreciate it as I've
been racking my brain for days.

"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

If the labels are in the first row, instead of A1,
A2 and A3 don't you mean A1, B1, C1.

No, not really. Those are the cells that contain the key values that you
want to extract from your database, and are on the same sheet as your
formula. They _could_ be in A1, B1, and C1, so you would change the
formula
to

=SUMPRODUCT(('[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!A1:A1000=A1)*('[Book
Name.xls]Sheet
name'!B1:B1000=B1),OFFSET('[Book Name.xls]Sheet
name'!A1:A1000,0,MATCH(C1,'[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!1:1,FALSE)-1))

This part ensures that only the correct company is pulled:

('[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!A1:A1000=A1)

This part ensure that only the correct FY is pulled

('[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!B1:B1000=B1)

and this part finds the correct month:

MATCH(C1,'[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!1:1,FALSE)

and this part is pulls in the actual data:

OFFSET('[Book Name.xls]Sheet name'!A1:A1000,0,MATCH(C1,'[Book
Name.xls]Sheet
name'!1:1,FALSE)-1))

It's a complex formula, but you have a complex problem.

If you don't want to use a formula, you could use a pivot table, but then
you would need to use a database rather than a cross-tab table, which
would
look like:

Company FY Month Amt.
A FY 2005 Jly. $6,502.20
A FY 2005 Aug. $9,899.43
A FY 2005 Sep. $28,916.10
etc....

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Leslie" wrote in message
...
Thank you for your reply. If the labels are in the first row, instead
of
A1,
A2 and A3 don't you mean A1, B1, C1. I'm new using these functions so
any
further explanation is appreciated. Another question, The reason I
need
this
formula is because I'm creating other workbooks which will each be
various
subsets of this worksheet. How does the other worksheet know to pull
for
company A, FY 2004 in July instead of company C, FY 2005 for July? I
can't
tell from the formula. Thanks again.