Formulas and Multiple worksheets

dah2

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In our office we are working on a project where we want to track certain items weekly for approximately 40 weeks, but maintain individual weekly sheets. We also would like to have each week's sheet use data from the sheet of the preceding week. We have had no problem creating the individual worksheet with the necessary formulas and creating additional weekly sheets within the same file. Our problem comes when we attempt to copy formulas from sheet to sheet in a relative format, particularly with the formula we desire to refer to the previous sheet. Any suggetions would be appreciated.
 

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One method to do this is to use the Indirect() function in each formula where you need to refer to a relative sheet name. Example: =indirect(a1&"!B1") will refer to cell B1 on whichever sheet name appears in cell A1 of the current sheet. You can write all of your equation in this way, copy them to a new sheet, then change the text in cell A1 and all of your formulas will refer to the new sheet.

One downfall is that if anyone changes the name of the sheet, it will generate an error. To get around this, you can use this formula in cell A1: =RIGHT(CELL("filename",Sheet1!IV1),LEN(CELL("filename",Sheet1!IV1))-FIND("]",CELL("filename",Sheet1!IV1))), and simply change the references as required... then when someone change sthe sheet name, it will update in cell A1.
 
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