Hi

I have 600 or so workbooks with a piece of information in cell a6 that I
need to extract in another workbook. Each workbook is saved on a network G
drive under folder structure userdata\alpha\surname firstname -
userid\userdata.xls
where alpha is the letters A-Z based on surname and each user under their
respective alpha split folder has a foldername based on the following
"surname - firstname - userid"

I have a work book that in column A that has each userid listed and in
column B the users name in the format above "surname firstname"

How do I set a formula in column c that can use the items A and B to make up
a path reference to the appropriate userdat.xls workbook and set the info
from cell a6 in column c of the work listing the user names and id's

I know I can use left(B1, 1) to get the letter for the alpha slit but I can
seem to combine this with a concatenate into a path reference.
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Regards and Thanks for any assistance.

Francis Brown.