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Linking to an internal cell inside a formula for linking to an external workbook

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    Linking to an internal cell inside a formula for linking to an external workbook

    Dear all,

    I want to make a worksheet that contains an overview of two specific cells each from of a range of workbooks. The solution is of course to do
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    But, I want to avoid to change the AT part of the link manually, rather using my pre existing list of country codes. So, is there any way I can replace that specific part of the code (AT) with a reference to a cell (for instance A2) ? I have tried to just write it inside the formula, but that does not work. Any help is much appreciated.

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    Re: Linking to an internal cell inside a formula for linking to an external workbook

    Try

    =INDIRECT("'\\EsApplNT\\Documents\Quality Reports\["&a2&"_QualityReport_2012.xlsx]Accuracy'!D1")

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    Re: Linking to an internal cell inside a formula for linking to an external workbook

    Hi, thanks for the tip, it is definitely a step in the right direction, as the
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    command links correctly to the internal cell, but I just get the #REF! , for some reason. I am thinking that this maybe also needs the
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    part of the command also, to link to the external workbook correctly ?

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