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Data vaildation from list and lookignup from other sheets

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    Data vaildation from list and lookignup from other sheets

    Hello all,

    I have a workbook that contains 12 worksheets named Jan, Feb, March and so on.....

    On a summary page I need to be able to display data from any one month.

    I was going to use a drop down data validation to select the month, then use a formula to get the data from the corrosponding work sheet.

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    In cell D1 I have the drop down months that corrospond to the names given to the worksheets (jan to dec) - So it would display for example 'March'

    In cell A5 I was going to use the formula =D1!A3 and was hoping for this to look up the month named worksheet and return the value on that work sheet that was in A3.

    But it does not work.....

    Any Ideas of a better way of doing it please?

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    Good afternoon Badvgood
    Quote Originally Posted by Badvgood View Post
    In cell A5 I was going to use the formula =D1!A3 and was hoping for this to look up the month named worksheet and return the value on that work sheet that was in A3.
    But it does not work.....
    Any Ideas of a better way of doing it please?
    Try :
    =INDIRECT(D1 & "!A3")

    HTH

    DominicB
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