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    drag and fill annoyance

    hello. Don't know if this has been asked before but it is doing my head in.
    Using Excel 2010, I am creating a workbook to set up a register of risks.
    Each risk has its own tab along the bottom (Risk1, Risk2, etc you get the idea) and I am trying to create a summary spreadsheet where some of the details are displayed, for ease of control etc. Like Title, probability, when raised, who owns it etc....
    The pain is, I have created the first row, picking detail from Risk1 tab. What I want to do is then drag and fill the rest of the rows to select the other tabs information. but what is winding me up is that I just get the following.
    cell B4 =Risk1!B2
    cell B5 =Risk1!B3
    cell B6 =Risk1!B4 when what I want it to read is Risk2!B2, Risk3!B2 and so on and so forth.

    Is this possible or am I just being thick about it.

    thanks in advance

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    Re: drag and fill annoyance

    Try this (untested)

    =INDIRECT("Risk"&ROW()-2&"!B2")
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    Re: drag and fill annoyance

    Try

    =INDIRECT("'Risk"&ROW(A1)&"!'B2") in B4 and drag down.
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    Cool Re: drag and fill annoyance

    Thank you both for your prompt replies, my laptop is now safe from being thrown across the floor.

    many thanks

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