how to reference a cell in another excel worksheet using ID from a formula

Question

Please help me to figure out how to reference a particular item in another tab (worksheet). I saw the reference with VBA, but I'm trying to see if this can be done with formula first. This will be a summary page, and I need to display values stored in the same location Q20 from all the sheets. I'm looking for something like: ='week03-Nov6'!Q25

so that I can copy it to the next cell to produce a series: ='week04-Nov13'!Q25 ='week05-Nov20'!Q25

I would like to replay the 'weekXX-DateXX' with some SHEET(ID). Is that possible without VBA?

Please advise.

Answer 1

You can use Indirect . Put this in A1,

=INDIRECT("'week0"&B1&"-Nov"&C1&"'!A1")

Then, in B1 and C1, you can put 3 and 6 (respectively), and the formula will basically return Cell A1 from Week03-Nov6 sheet.

You can tweak/adjust/add as necessary. Let me know if you aren't able to get this working!