The challenge was making the variable period selectable. I found HLOOKUP &
VLOOKUP solved my problem. Thanks anyways for your help Bob!
regards
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Couldn't the summing formula on each sheet pick up that variable period on
the summary sheet?

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Bob Phillips

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"NetMax" wrote in message
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Don't think that will do it. Somewhere on the summary sheet, I want to
enter a number (corresponding to the payroll period I want the data
called
up from). Then all the employee data displayed would be called up from
only
a certain location on their individual sheets.

Essentially, regular hours for employee X would be ='empX'!(find payroll
period to direct which cell to copy data from)
then I repeat this for their sick days, holiday etc. Then I repeat the
whole thing per employee.

I need a variable in the equals statement to copy from different cell
addresses.
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Best way would be to sum them in a nominated cell on each worksheet,
lets
say B2, B3, etc and then sum them like

=SUM(Sheet1:Sheet26!B2)

etc.

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Bob Phillips

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"NetMax" wrote in message
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Each workbook sheet has payroll records per individual for the entire
year (regular hours, overtime, holiday etc).

I want a summary sheet to display the relevant data (ie: sums of
regular
hours, sick days etc) of the payperiod entered (1 of 26) for each
employee.

So the clerk (me) enters a payroll period, and sees that data for each
employee.

Seems simply enough, and there is probably more than one way to do it,
but the help files have only frustrated me so far.


TIA
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NetMax