Vlookup question

[aka_krakur]

Okay, I'll try & make this as simple as I can.
I have two worksheet tabs. 1. Named: Sheet2 & 2. Named: 2524-Pivot
In Sheet2 I have the following layout:
A B C D
E
MM/YY MM/YY
MM/YY
_Code__________Reported_Device_______Jan-06_________Feb-06_________Mar-06_
2524 Failure to Advance

Okay, so under let's say C3 I am trying to write a Vlookup formula.
normal one would be =VLOOKUP(C2,'2524-Pivot'!$A$3:$J$24,10,FALSE) a
Worksheet Tab 2524-Pivot is where the data is I want it to look u
according to the MM/YY.
It works great; however, I am going to be creating a crazy amount o
these Pivot-table worksheets and each one will be named *-code-*-Pivot
So I wanted to know if anyone knew if it was possible to do a Vlooku
that would automatically grab the A column (Code) and then just put th
-Pivot part of the table_array name.
I tried the following (which didn't work:
=vlookup(c2,'a3&-Pivot'!$a$3:$j$24,10,false) and some similar.

anyone out there can help, it would be greatly appreciated. if it'
possible all I would have to do would be to copy and paste these i
this huge spreadsheet with many mm/yy fields.

Please help.

Thanks,
Davi

 

[Bernard Liengme]

Try Help under INDIRECT. You can construct a formula that takes text from a
cell
Suppose A1 has the value 1, then =INDIRECT("Sheet"&A1&"!C1") is equivalent
to =Sheet1!C1

By the way: your WORKBOOK is make up of WORKSHEETS and, maybe, CHARTSHEETS
The TABS are just the tools used to open the sheets.
So you refer to the worksheet named 2524-Pivot, not to the tab with that on
it.
Your workbook has worksheets named Sheet2 and 2524-Pivot
Using the correct terminology helps getting results from Help and from other
users
best wishes

 

[Guest]

This might work:
=VLOOKUP(C2,INDIRECT("'"&A3&"-Pivot'!$A$3:$J$24"),10,FALSE)

-Simon