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I second that.
Your website is an excellent place to get help on excel.

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"Sheeloo" wrote:

Hello CHip,

Just wanted to thank you. I am a great fan of your website on Excel. It has
taught me great things and saved hundreds of hours...

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"Chip Pearson" wrote:

You can use the INDIRECT function. For example,

=VLOOKUP("a",INDIRECT("["&F3&"]Sheet1!A1:B10"),2,FALSE)

This will take the workbook name from cell F3. Note that INDIRECT requires
that the file named in F3 be open. INDIRECT does not work with closed files.


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