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Default Worksheet name / reference as a formula?

Hello.

I have a Workbook where there are many worksheets; the name of each is a
date, i.e. "1-21", "1-22", "1-23", etc. I have a summary sheet that
centralizes data based on the individual worksheets into a usable form. Every
day I add another worksheet with a new date. This system does not need to be
scalable as I will only be doing this for 6 months. On the summary sheet, I
have VLOOKUP equations that reference to worksheets pulling data for each
date so that the same piece of data may be compared over time in a column.
The problem is, every time I add another worksheet, I have to manually change
the VLOOKUP formula to reference the newly minted sheet.

For instance, here is my formula:

=VLOOKUP(B$3,'1-21'!$E$2:$I$31,5,FALSE)

'1-21' is the worksheet. When I add a sheet for '1-22' I will have to copy
this formula and then manually change the worksheet name.

What I would like to do is change the worksheet name to a formula, so that I
dont have to manually change it each time.

However, I cant get this to work at even the most basic level, which would
be to have a cell with €œtext€ formatting with the text €œ1-22€ and then
reference to it from within my VLOOKUP formula.

If that would work, I would have the relative worksheet formula access the
date column which labels the date each row represents so that instead of
something like this:

'1-21'

I would have something like this:

'MONTH(A15)&"-"&DAY(A15)

That equation produces the text €œ1-21€ and adjusts to the relevant date.

Unfortunately, I cant get the worksheet name to be relative in any way.

Is there any way to turn the worksheet name into a formula, so that it may
be altered?

Is anything like this possible?

Thank you.

Using:
Excel 2003
 
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