It gets hung up on the apostrophe since it is both part of workbook/sheet
naming and also a text precedent, remove the leading apostrophe in B42
like this

[Award Stats.xls]Stats'!B304

then in B43 use

=INDIRECT("'"&B42)

also note that if you close the source workbook indirect will not work


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Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
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Two situations:

1) Create two new workbooks
2) In one workbook (Workbook1) enter value of 200 in cell A1
3) In second workbook (Workbook2) enter [Workbook1]Sheet1!A1 into cell
A1
4) In cell A2 in second workbook, enter =Indirect(A1)
5) I get back 200

Situation 2

1) I have two large workbooks
2) In one workbook, called [Award Stats], in worksheet 2006 Stats, in
cell B304, I have value of
2,000,000
3) In another workbook, in cell B42, I have the following: '[Award
Stats]2006 Stats'!B304
4) In cell B43 in second workbook, I have =Indirect(B42)
5) I get back #REF!

Why the difference?