I would like to be able to call out data from various sheets with out naming
the sheet in the formula. I would like to be able to input the name of the
sheet into a cell and then the formula would use the name of the sheet from
that cell to lookup the data. I think it should be some type of "lookup"
formula but I can't figure it out.

You can use the INDIRECT funcion. Lets say your sheet name is stored in cell
A1, and you want to retrieve the value in cell B2 of the sheet named in A1.
Use this formula:

=INDIRECT(A1&"!B2")

HTH,
Elkar


"angelila" wrote:

I would like to be able to call out data from various sheets with out naming
the sheet in the formula. I would like to be able to input the name of the
sheet into a cell and then the formula would use the name of the sheet from
that cell to lookup the data. I think it should be some type of "lookup"
formula but I can't figure it out.

I don't think I was very clear in my previous post. I would like to for the
sum of a column from a different sheet to show up in one cell when I input
the name of the sheet in a different cell.

Ex. on sheet1

A B
1 3-27-06 ###

3-27-06 is the name of the sheet and ### is the sum of a column on sheet
3-27-06.


"Elkar" wrote:

You can use the INDIRECT funcion. Lets say your sheet name is stored in cell
A1, and you want to retrieve the value in cell B2 of the sheet named in A1.
Use this formula:

=INDIRECT(A1&"!B2")

HTH,
Elkar


"angelila" wrote:

I would like to be able to call out data from various sheets with out naming
the sheet in the formula. I would like to be able to input the name of the
sheet into a cell and then the formula would use the name of the sheet from
that cell to lookup the data. I think it should be some type of "lookup"
formula but I can't figure it out.

You can still use the INDIRECT funciton. Try this:

=SUM(INDIRECT("'"&A1&"'!"&"D:D"))

This returns the sum of column D of the sheet named in cell A1.



"angelila" wrote:

I don't think I was very clear in my previous post. I would like to for the
sum of a column from a different sheet to show up in one cell when I input
the name of the sheet in a different cell.

Ex. on sheet1

A B
1 3-27-06 ###

3-27-06 is the name of the sheet and ### is the sum of a column on sheet
3-27-06.


"Elkar" wrote:

You can use the INDIRECT funcion. Lets say your sheet name is stored in cell
A1, and you want to retrieve the value in cell B2 of the sheet named in A1.
Use this formula:

=INDIRECT(A1&"!B2")

HTH,
Elkar


"angelila" wrote:

I would like to be able to call out data from various sheets with out naming
the sheet in the formula. I would like to be able to input the name of the
sheet into a cell and then the formula would use the name of the sheet from
that cell to lookup the data. I think it should be some type of "lookup"
formula but I can't figure it out.