Update cell location in excel

Question

I wanted to get the cell from one sheet based on cell value in other sheet
eg.

2 sheets : x,y

I want cell value from sheet "y" and its cell is "A" and column value of "A" depend on sheet x and cell B1

  eg. y!A(x!$B1+1)

However,y!A gets evaluated first and I get error.

Can anyone suggest solution ?

Answer 1

This formula should do it:

=INDIRECT("y!r1c"&x!B1, FALSE)

This assumes x!B1 holds the column as a number

Answer 2

y!A(x!$B1+1)

You can use INDIRECT like Dave mentioned

y is the Sheet
A is the column
(x!$B1+1) is the row

However since you want to pickup the row part and not the column part, Dave's formula needs to be written as

=INDIRECT("y!r"&(x!B1+1)&"c1", FALSE)

Alternatively you can use OFFSET

=OFFSET(y!A1,x!B1,0)

No need to Add +1 Offset will take care of that.