Because I have 50 sheets ..

Some add-ons ..

1. Try the sub below to list all the sheetnames in the book at one go:

Press Alt+F11 to go to VBE
Click Insert Module
Copy paste everything within the dotted lines below
into the whitespace on the right

-------begin vba-----
Sub SheetNames()
'Peo Sjoblom in .worksheet.functions Jul '02
Dim wkSht As Worksheet
Range("A1").Select
For Each wkSht In Worksheets
Selection = wkSht.Name
ActiveCell.Offset(rowOffset:=1, columnOffset:=0).Activate
Next wkSht
End Sub
-------endvba------

Press Alt+Q to get back to Excel

In a *new* sheet, say Sheet1, press Alt+F8
Select "SheetNames" Run

The sheetnames will be listed in A1 down, in this sequence:

1st sheet (leftmost) will be listed in A1,
2nd sheet in A2, and so on

Hidden sheets will also be listed
and will appear after the last (rightmost) sheet

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2. So, assuming you now have in Sheet1, in A1 downwards,
a tidied up list of all the 50 + sheetnames:

Daniel
Mark
Byran
Hugh
Paul
etc

In the sheet: Summary
[ which contains the earlier VLOOKUP(.. INDIRECT(...) ..) formulas
suggested ]

just put in B1: =OFFSET(Sheet1!$A$1,COLUMNS($A$1:A1)-1,)
and copy B1 across as many cols as you have names to be listed
(this saves you having to manually list all the 50+ sheetnames in B1, C1,
etc)

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Rgds
Max
xl 97
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