Adding same cells across multiple worksheets

[LACA]

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:51 am Post subject: Adding same cells
across multiple worksheets

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I have a file with 10 worksheets, each of which contains a P&L
statement for each different department within the company, and another
worksheet that rolls all the department totals into one consolidated
P&L.

The consolidated worksheet adds the balances of each individual
worksheet to calculate the company total.

If each worksheet is called "Dept1", "Dept2", etc., and the
consolidated worksheet is called "Total", my formula in "Total" for
each line was this:

=+Dept1!A5+Dept2!A5+Dept3!A5...and so on.

I then changed it to this because it's much shorter:

=SUM('Dept1ept10'!A5)

The only problem is that there are other worksheets in this file as
well, and the users tend to move the placement of the worksheets around
to suit their needs, which would obviously make the second formula
inadequate if they moved one of the department worksheets out of the
listed range.

Is there a formula that "locks" the worksheet names so that all ten
worksheets will be included in the total, regardless of where they are
moved within the file?

 

[Vasant Nanavati]

I don't think this is possible.

 

[vezerid]

Laca,
try the following:

=SUM(INDIRECT("'Dept"&ROW(1:10)&"'!A5")

which is an *array* formula (you must commit with Shift+Ctrl+Enter).
This one will definitely ignore irrelevant sheets.

HTH
Kostis Vezerides