Taking Certian Data only from 2 Spreadsheets

Hi All,

I have 39 Excel Spreadsheets & there are only certain figures i would like in each spreadsheet & they are all in the same Coloumn & row. I would like these figures to go into another spreadsheet i have created how can i do this?? Is it possible? Can i transfer them over into a new spreadsheet so within this new sheet i then can caculate them all. Would appreciate all the help.

Cheers
Will

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 will resolve 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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xdemechanik
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"william4444" wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have 39 Excel Spreadsheets & there are only certain figures i would
> like in each spreadsheet & they are all in the same Coloumn & row. I
> would like these figures to go into another spreadsheet i have created
> how can i do this?? Is it possible? Can i transfer them over into a new
> spreadsheet so within this new sheet i then can caculate them all. Would
> appreciate all the help.
>
> Cheers
> Will
>
>
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A sample construct is available at:
http://www.savefile.com/files/5536280
Indirect_Taking_certain data from 2 sheets.xls
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Max
Singapore
http://savefile.com/projects/236895
xdemechanik
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