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    Hi,

    Almost embarressed to ask, but it’s been a while since I’ve been doing this so it has slipped my mind… stupidme blush

    Got book “1” & “2”

    Book 1 contains in Col A descriptive labels for annual accounting figures (col B onwards contain years, eg. B=2000, C=2001 etc…)

    Book 2 – Cell C4 should show contents of Book 1 Cell B2, cell D4 should show Book 1 C2 etc..
    In Book 2 col A, I type the number for the rows I want (eg. to get B2, col A shows ‘2’)

    Thought I could do a simple:
    1. concatenation like =CONCATENATE(‘[Book1.xls]Input’!B$,$A3)
    2. ampersand ‘&’ like =”‘[Book1.xls]Input’!B$”&$A3

    – but none of this seems to work, so please – refresh my mind bash

    THX in advance

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    • #1103308

      You can use the INDIRECT function for this, but it will only work if Book1 is open.

      =INDIRECT("'[Book1.xls]Input'!B$"&$A3)

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