Auto "copy and paste" individual cells from various sheets into one sheet ??

Hi,

I am using Excel 2002 and work on a workbook.

Inside the workbook, there are 3 sheets: Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet3

For each of the sheet, Cell A1 and A3 (two cells) both contain the data
that I want.

Question:
I want to have Sheet 1: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet 2: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet
3: A1 and A3 data shown on a new sheet, say Sheet 4.

1)
Is there an automatic way that all these 3 sheets can be "exported" to
Sheet 4?

2)
Any other method than marking " = Sheet1!A1 " etc in Sheet 4?

Thanks.

One way would be via using INDIRECT

Perhaps a simple example to illustrate ..

In Sheet4,

Suppose we list sheetnames across in B1:D1,
eg: Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3

and we have the cell refs of interest listed down in A2:A3,
eg: A1, A3

Then, we could put in B2: =INDIRECT("'" & B$1 & "'!" & $A2)
and copy B2 across & down to D3 ..

B2:D2 will return the same as the link formulas:
=Sheet1!A1, =Sheet2!A1, etc

B3:D3 will return the same as the link formulas:
=Sheet1!A3, =Sheet2!A3, etc

INDIRECT resolves the concatenation of the sheetname and cell ref text
strings to return the results from the particular sheet and cell listed in
B1:D1, and in A2:A3. So we could design the layout and define / change the
sheetnames and cell ref text strings in the header row/col to suit the
purpose.

And for a neater look, we could also suppress the display of "extraneous"
zeros in Sheet4 via clicking Tools > Options > View tab > Uncheck "Zero
values" > OK
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Max
Singapore
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xdemechanik
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> Hi,
>
> I am using Excel 2002 and work on a workbook.
>
> Inside the workbook, there are 3 sheets: Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet3
>
> For each of the sheet, Cell A1 and A3 (two cells) both contain the data
> that I want.
>
> Question:
> I want to have Sheet 1: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet 2: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet
> 3: A1 and A3 data shown on a new sheet, say Sheet 4.
>
> 1)
> Is there an automatic way that all these 3 sheets can be "exported" to
> Sheet 4?
>
> 2)
> Any other method than marking " = Sheet1!A1 " etc in Sheet 4?
>
> Thanks.
>

Here's a sample file to illustrate:
http://cjoint.com/?dbevEkGhlc
Intro Extracting data into summary using INDIRECT.xls
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Max
Singapore
http://savefile.com/projects/236895
xdemechanik
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