Yeah but assumes Aug. Mine will work with Aug, Sep, etc, which I am sure is
what the OP would want. Put that back in and it is no shorter.

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Hi,

I think Bob's formula can be shortened to like this,

=IF(RIGHT(x,2)="01","",INDIRECT("Aug"&TEXT(--RIGHT(x,2)-1,"00")&"!D5"))

where x,

=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,255)

HTH


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