INDIRECT reference to another worksheet in same workbook

[Johan]

Sorry for a dumb question but I cannot get this right.

I have a workbook with multiple worksheets, lets say the sheet names are
Summary, Jan, Feb etc. In sheet 'Summary' in cell A1 I have the name of one
of these sheets, let's say A1 =Jan.

In cell A3 (of 'Summary') i want the contents of cell B2 of sheet Jan
displayed.

I have the following formula in cell A3 (of 'Summary') =INDIRECT(A1&"!B2")
but I get a REF error back.

Please help

 

[John C]

It works fine for me. Have you verified there isn't an error in cell B2 of Jan?

 

[Teethless mama]

It worked on my machine

 

[Max]

Data inconsistency is the usual culprit. Eg there could be an extra trailing
white space in the sheetname entered in B2 (not readily visible) which is
throwing the match off

Try this rendition in A3: =INDIRECT("'"&TRIM(A1)&"'!B2")
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[Johan]

Thanks for the response. I was trying to simplify my problem here. I now
realise that my problem is that I actually have a vlookup formula in A1 (and
not simply a directly the sheet name). This is probably causing my problem