Peo, you are a star. worked like a chram. Julie, the B10 just refers to a
column #, which I have as a number at the top of the column.

"JulieD" wrote:

Hi Peo

how does the B$10 work in a VLOOKUP statement?

Cheers
JulieD

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote in message
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One way

=VLOOKUP($A14,INDIRECT("'"&B2&"'!A10:O40"),B$10,FA LSE)

where B2 would hold the state (sheet) name
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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"cwee" wrote in message
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I have a file with 50 worksheets, one for each state of the US.

I am making a master worksheet with a VLOOKUP function to pull data from
the
other sheets depending on what state name the user types into a certain
cell.
A VLOOKUP functin will pull the data, like this:

=VLOOKUP($A14,'Alabama'!$A$10:$O$40,B$10,FALSE)

I'd like to make the " 'Alabama'! " part of the function a link to the
cell
where the user enters the state name. In this way, the function would
update
itself with whatever state the user wanted to see. However, it seems like
worksheet names are static, not linkable. Is there a way to get ths to
work?