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MABeatty
 
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Default Grabbing the Last name


Worked like a charm, but to my surprise didn't solve my problem.

Step 2 I have several worksheets that are named by a persons last
name. I wanted to take a total from each of the sheets and display
them on one sheet. The second sheet simeply has "Last, First" in Row A
and a total in Row B. My though was to use to refer to the last name in
the formula to get the last name.

Instead of having =Smith!D20

I could have =LEFT(a1,FIND(",",a1)-1)!D20
where A1 would equal "Smith, Joe"
that way as the list changes I could simply update the name and "Fill
Down" the formula.


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