Excel: Get cell value by referencing text of another cell (without using VBA)

Question

I have this situation.

A1="Text I want" (A1 is the text i want)

X1="A1" (X1 is the cell of the text i want)

I now want Z1 to be the text of A1 using the reference provided by X1.

Ex: Z1=gettextofthiscell(X1)==>getvalueofthiscell(A1)=="Text I want"

What formula for Z1 would do something like this (without using VBA)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to use INDIRECT

INDIRECT function

Insert this function in Z1. The argument must be X1. Of course, X1 value must be A1 . Then the formula will read XI and get get the text of A1.

=INDIRECT(X1)

An example:

Answer 2

我相信您正在寻找间接函数：Z1 = Indirect（X1）