Thanks for the reply, I realised about five minutes after I posted
that needed the second argument.


JE McGimpsey wrote in message ...
You need to include the second argument in the CELL() function - by
default it uses the last sheet calculated. Try:

=VLOOKUP(VALUE(MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1))+1,25
5)),List!$A$3:$G$70,COLUMN()+1,FALSE)



In article ,
(RogueSwan) wrote:

The problem I have with this is that each sheet has the same result.
Say I look at sheet 25, if I do a recalc then the correct answer comes
through the formula. If I then move to sheet 33 it has the same
results as sheet 25 until I do a recalc. This unfortunately then
changes sheet 25's result to the same as sheet 33. What am I missing?