Auto "copy and paste" individual cells from various sheets into one sheet ??

[dstdst123]

Hi,

I am using Excel 2002 and work on a workbook.

Inside the workbook, there are 3 sheets: Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet3

For each of the sheet, Cell A1 and A3 (two cells) both contain the data
that I want.

Question:
I want to have Sheet 1: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet 2: Cell A1 and A3, Sheet
3: A1 and A3 data shown on a new sheet, say Sheet 4.

1)
Is there an automatic way that all these 3 sheets can be "exported" to
Sheet 4?

2)
Any other method than marking " = Sheet1!A1 " etc in Sheet 4?

Thanks.

 

[Max]

One way would be via using INDIRECT

Perhaps a simple example to illustrate ..

In Sheet4,

Suppose we list sheetnames across in B11,
eg: Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3

and we have the cell refs of interest listed down in A2:A3,
eg: A1, A3

Then, we could put in B2: =INDIRECT("'" & B$1 & "'!" & $A2)
and copy B2 across & down to D3 ..

B22 will return the same as the link formulas:
=Sheet1!A1, =Sheet2!A1, etc

B33 will return the same as the link formulas:
=Sheet1!A3, =Sheet2!A3, etc

INDIRECT resolves the concatenation of the sheetname and cell ref text
strings to return the results from the particular sheet and cell listed in
B11, and in A2:A3. So we could design the layout and define / change the
sheetnames and cell ref text strings in the header row/col to suit the
purpose.

And for a neater look, we could also suppress the display of "extraneous"
zeros in Sheet4 via clicking Tools > Options > View tab > Uncheck "Zero
values" > OK

 

[Max]

Here's a sample file to illustrate:
http://cjoint.com/?dbevEkGhlc
Intro Extracting data into summary using INDIRECT.xls

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