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Using a cell contents to construct a formula?

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    Using a cell contents to construct a formula?

    Hi, and thank you for your help.
    I have run across this need many times...is there any way to use to contents of one cell, to construct a formula in another cell?

    Here is my particular requirement. I have worksheets named January, February, March...etc.

    On a separate Summary Worksheet, I reference the same cells on each of those sheets.

    For example, I may have in 3 adjacent cells, =January!A1 =February!A1 =March!A1 and then in the next row: =January!A7 =February!A7 =March!A7 etc.

    It would, obviously, be much easier to "build a formula" by creating a row with the months name and then reference that row in another formula. Is this possible? Or is there another way to accomplish this?

    Thanks for your help.
    Pradhan

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    Re: Using a cell contents to construct a formula?

    Hi,

    The =INDIRECT() function allows you to reference a cell using the contents of another cell.
    Rule 1: Never merge cells
    Rule 2: See rule 1

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    Re: Using a cell contents to construct a formula?

    Thank you...I am using it now, and it will save me hours of time.

    Pradhan

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