Dear All

I'm looking for some advice and guidance on building a VLOOKUP formula which
refers to other sheets based on information in a cell. Mmmm ... it doesn't
get any clearer with more words, does it ?

A practical example: I have a summary sheet and individual sheets, one per
day of the month. The tab names for the individual sheets are 01-01
(January 01), 01-02 (January 02), 01-03 (January 03) , etc. to 01-31
(January 31). I want to be able to refer to these sheets in VLOOKUP
formulae in the Summary sheet.

So, in row 2 of the Summary sheet I have the dates in cells B2 to AF2,
January 1, 2004 to January 31, 2004.

In row 3 of the Summary sheet, I can build the reference I need to the
sheets using the following formula:

=TEXT(MONTH(B2),"00")&"-"&TEXT(DAY(B2),"00") which gives me 01-01 in cell
B3, 01-02 in C3, etc

Dragging across gives me the references I need ... or, at least, I think I
need.

So far so good. What I now need to do is build a lookup formula using the
data in Cell B3 (and across to AF3)

What I want to do is create a formula, for example:
=VLOOKUP($A5,'01-01'!B:E,2,FALSE) in cell B5 but, instead of using hard
coded reference to '01-01', I want to be able to use/refer to the contents
of cell B3. I'm guessing this might need to use INDIRECT but I cannot for
the life of me work out the syntax.

The data would look something like:

01/01/2004 02/01/2004 03/01/2004 04/01/2004 05/01/2004
01-01 01-02 01-03 01-04


I'd appreciate any suggestions as to the best way to approach this problem.

Thanks

Trevor