I'm having a problem which led to another problem. I'll tell you about both
because either solution would get me to where I wasnt to be.

1. I created an excel workbook which is serving as a template. In its base
case version there are four tabs with the titles: bond 1 present, bond 2
present, etc. An additional tab called "pointers" is up front with input
info for each case 1-4, or more cases as necessary (these toggles are
referred to in the individual "present" tabs).

Each of these tabs compute results relying on those inputs. I also have
cell S2 in each worksheet which has the typed in number 1, 2 , 3 or 4
corresponding to the number in the worksheet tab. What I'd like to do is
allow the user to create a 5th tab (by duping any of the first 4) which will
automatically compute results for
case 5, base on the 5th row in the inputs tab. And I dont want the user to
have type the new number in cell s2.
I tried a formula
=MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("Pres",CELL("filename") )-3,2)*1, which extracts
the number from the tab label (which the user would have to type in). But
this only calculates correctly for the active tab for some reason.
Unfortunately, all of the computations in the other four tabs would be based
off this number so it screws everything up.

Does anyone have another solution to making this dataentry free (other than
entering the name of the new tab)?
I do not want to use VBA here is this is a VBA free version of another
template.

2. One solution I thought would work is extracting the word "present" from
each tab and running a countif for that text string in the entire workbook.
I think this will work, but how do you use countif for the entire workbook
when you won't know the last tab name until the user adds it?