And of course, to kick this horse to death, you could name your ranges.

Say A1 = Jan06 is named "one"
And A1:A2 is "two"
And A1:A3 is "three"
.... etc.

Then you could use:

=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&one&"'!B2")))
=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&two&"'!B2")))
=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&three&"'!B2")))
.... etc.
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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That should of course be

=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&TEXT(ROW(INDIRECT(A2&": "&A4)),"0000")&"'!B2")))

and in this case, you would not need all sheet names, just the start and
end
names.

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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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If you change the sheet names, to say 0601, 0602, 0603, etc, you could
do
it
with


=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&TEXT(ROW(INDIRECT(H2&": "&H4)),"0000")&"'!B2")))

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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Sorry, Saturday blues.

You can't do it quite as you want, you will need to list the sheets in
A2:A13, and just setup the formula for those you want, like so

=SUMPRODUCT(N(INDIRECT("'"&A2:A4&"'!B2")))

which will do Jan, Feb and Mar

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"Bill" wrote in message
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Surely this simply adds 2 cells.

What I need to do is to sum the range i.e. B2 on each of the
following
sheets:
Jan06
Feb06
Mar06

I want to create a range that includes B2 for every sheet between
the
two
indirect references. However, as this often contains dozens of
references,
I
don't want to simply use "+" between each.



"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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=INDIRECT(A2&"!B2")+INDIRECT(A4&"!B2")


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"Bill" wrote in message
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Thanks, that works well! However, I also need to SUM a range
which
would
include 2 INDIRECT references:

In this case, I would need to have the two references inside a
SUM
function.

I tried this:
=SUM(INDIRECT(A2&".B2"):INDIRECT(A4&".B2"))
where A2 contains Jan06 & A4 contains Mar06
and a few variations, but only get an error.

The idea here is to sum the values in Jan06!B2:Mar06!B2

Is this possible?

Thanks

"Ragdyer" wrote in message
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Try this:

=B4+INDIRECT(A4&"!C7")

With Apr05 in A4.
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"Bill" wrote in message
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I've tried using INDIRECT, but cannot find the correct syntax
to
make
the
formula work properly.

If possible, could you please be a little more specific?

Thanks

"Ardus Petus" wrote in message
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use INDIRECT

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Can anyone please help with this function?

I have a large spreadsheet file with numerous worksheets.
Each sheet represents one month of the year and is named
Jan05,
Feb05,
Mar05
etc.

In the "Summary" sheet I want to automatically reference a
range
in
the
other sheets.

For example:

In the Summary sheet column A, I have the sheet names:
Jan05
Feb05
Mar05
etc.

In column B, (let's use B5 as an example) I want a formula
that
reads
something like:
=B4 + Apr05!C7

This seems simple enough, but how can I write a formula
that
'automatically'
enters the sheet name (i.e. "Apr05") in the formula?
The row containing the data for Apr05 is only created when
that
month
comes
along, in order to keep the file size as small as possible
at
any
time.