Extract info from sheet/tab ignoring the name

gjgj

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Hi all,
is it possible to take data (possibly from look up formula?) from sucessive tab/sheets with in a range? The tabs are named differently but it would be great to have a formula ignore the name of the tab and just automatically 'jump to the next one' and collect the info.

Basically i have one summary tab of info which is taken from specific parts of each of the other tabs in the worksheet. There are large amounts of sheets each named uniquely. The problem is it is updated every week and so is the name of the tab. The cell and the info type which is extracted and summarised is always the same. So every week I have to change the formula to reflect the new tab/sheet names so it works ok.

Thanks!
 

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Thanks for the reply VoG, but I think it wouldn't work actually - sorry my inital description wasn't the clearest.
The individual sheets have the same structure (the relevant info in same cells) but with varying info in them, but the info type is always the same:

Individual sheets:
Left cell same | Right cell unique
<table style="width: 148px; height: 56px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><col style="width: 48pt;" width="64" span="2"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl63" style="height: 15pt; width: 48pt;" width="64" height="20">Project:</td> <td class="xl63" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64">xyz</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl63" style="height: 15pt; border-top: medium none;" height="20">Duration:</td> <td class="xl63" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;">2 days</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
So the lookup wouldn't really work (I think?).
If there is a way for a formula to just extract the text from the same cell number from one sheet, then 'skip to the next sheet' (ignoring the sheet name as its always changing) it would be perfect. So the summary sheet would look like:

Summary Sheet:
<table style="width: 229px; height: 76px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><col style="width: 48pt;" width="64" span="3"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; width: 48pt;" width="64" height="20">Sheet</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Project</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Duration</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top: medium none;" height="20">1</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;">xyz</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;">2 days</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top: medium none;" height="20">2</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;">zyx</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;">3 days</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
thanks again! Hope this clears it up a bit.
 
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