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Default Linking Cells accross Workbooks using Column Names

Hi,

I have an excel problem that has me pretty stumped. I am trying to build a
worksheet that pulls data from one of several other workbooks.

The problem is that these other workbooks (about 80 of them) are all
formatted slightly differently. For example, i want to pull a "Price" column
from each, however in one file that could be col A but in another that could
be col F. Is there a way to link these based on column name rather than cell
ref?

As a follow-up to that, is there a way to make the sheet into a kind of
template whereby I can type the location of the target file in one cell, the
name of the sheet in another and it would then automatically pull a named
column from that particular worksheet.

To be honest this second part sounds like a bit of a stretch but I would
have thought the first part should be doable.

Thanks in advance
Jimmy
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