USe Contents of cell as name of worksheet in a function

[lab-guy]

Hi All -

I have 1 worksheet for every student, and a summary worksheet that checks a
specific ranges in each students sheet. I manually do a find replace to
change the student's name in each column of the summary sheet.

How do I take the students name from COL C of the summary sheet and tell the
SUMIFs in Cols E - Z to go to that students worksheet and match the criteria
etc.. instead of manually changing the names ? (names in COL C match the
names of the students worksheets)

This worksheet is going to grow larger, and this would be very helpful.

Thank You - Mike

 

[Bob Phillips]

Use INDIRECT

INDIRECT("'"&C2&"'!A2:A100")

for example

 

[lab-guy]

This helps, Thank You

How do I make the C2 absolute, so the column doesn't change when I copy it ?

Mike

 

[lab-guy]

Got It !

I had to make it absolute in 2 places.

Thanks Much

Mike

 

[David Biddulph]

To understand relative and absolute addressing, look up the topic in Excel
help.

=INDIRECT("'"&$C$2&"'!A2:A100")
or =INDIRECT("'"&$C2&"'!A2:A100") if it is just the column, not the row,
that you want to be absolute.

 

[Herbert Seidenberg]

Excel 2007
SUMIFS() in summary sheet.
Tables, Structured References.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qryinm2yjm0/07_06_09.xlsx