I am trying to create a report generator for my spreadsheet. On my
report sheet I want to be able to specify the name of the sheet (B5)
and the column heading from that sheet (A9) to pull data from so that:

A10=HLOOKUP(INDIRECT($A$9),INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A2 :AA1000"),2)
A11=HLOOKUP(INDIRECT($A$9),INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A2 :AA1000"),3)
A12=HLOOKUP(INDIRECT($A$9),INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A2 :AA1000"),4)
...

In A9 the user can select valid column headings from a list. For
example, if B5=Sheet 1 and A9=Name then A10 would equal the first entry
under the column heading "Name" from Sheet 1, A11 would equal the
second, ....

However, the formula I have listed above does not work for the
INDIRECT($A$9) part (the rest seems to work). I tried simply A9 instead
of INDIRECT($A$9), and the report did pull data from Sheet 1, it just
wasn't from the Name column, it was from some other column. Can anybody
tell me how to correct this formula? Thanks for the help.


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Hi, I solved my own problem, it was just a simple mistake. There was no
need for INDIRECT anyways. I just forgot to include the row of colum
headings in the array reference. Here's the working formula:

A10=HLOOKUP($A$9,INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A1 :AA1000"),2)
A11=HLOOKUP($A$9,INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A1 :AA1000"),3)
A12=HLOOKUP($A$9,INDIRECT("'"&$B$5&"'!A1 :AA1000"),4)


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Now my question is, How can I make each column of the report format
numbers the same way as in the column from which the data is being
extracted? I need the report to be able to show dates, percentages,
currency, ... Thanks in advance for any help.


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You need to copy, formulas do not carry over formats

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Peo Sjoblom

Excel 95 - Excel 2007
Northwest Excel Solutions
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Now my question is, How can I make each column of the report format
numbers the same way as in the column from which the data is being
extracted? I need the report to be able to show dates, percentages,
currency, ... Thanks in advance for any help.


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