vlookup question

[SteveDB1]

Hi all.
I'm not entirely familiar with vlookup so please bear with me.
I'm interested in searching approximately 35 worksheets in a workbook for a
specific string. Once I find the right string, I want to search that page for
2 or 3 specific elements. Once I find all of those elements I want to compare
the source number (which will be on the base worksheet) with the destination
number (which will be one of the 35 worksheets I'm searching).
I used "multi worksheet search" as my search criteria on the worksheet
functions newsgroup and came up with a discussion from back in mid-August,
the 16th through the 17th. It was a UDF for vlookup, or mvlookup. Harlan's
was a volatile function.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroup...-DC48AB0DA5C9&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

Harlan, and Toppers both responded to a person named Chris147's questions
about how to something similar-- but of course, mine is just different enough.
While I'm game to use a volatile function, I'd like to avoid it, as I've
read from the msdn library that it will not automatically update as the
destination sheets change.

How can I perform the above described task set?
Thank you for your time, and responses.
Best.

 

[SteveDB1]

Ok....
by the lack of responses-- when they're usually so quick, I'll take it that
this has either already been answered elsewhere, or is too complicated.
I have looked into vlookup, index, and indirect on Excel's help file.
While it seems that index might be the closest for my needs, I still don't
see anything that will allow for multiple worksheet searching--
simultaneously.
If I've chosen something that's just too painful, I'd like to know that too.

I'm interested in searching approximately 35 worksheets in a workbook for a
specific string. Once I find the right string, I want to search that page for
2 or 3 specific elements. Once I find all of those elements I want to compare
the source number (which will be on the base worksheet) with the destination
number (which will be one of the 35 worksheets I'm searching).

Again, thank you for your responses.

 

[Pete_UK]

Steve,

you pointed to a thread which gave two answers to the original post.
Have you tried these? If they did not work for you, what was the
problem? Just saying that your problem was "different enough" does not
really describe what you have done so far.

Do you need help with the UDF? Does Harlan's formula not work?

Give us a bit more to go on.

Pete