keep lookup sheet name static for renaming sheets.

[ferret]

hey everyone.
my problem is this....
i have a sheet in a workbook looking up data on another sheet called "this week". but the following week i want to change the "this week" sheet to have the title as the week no. (11), and create a new "this week" sheet. The problem is that the sheet with the lookups now looks up the data in the "11" sheet instead of the "this week" sheet. Is there any way to make the lookup sheet static, the way you can make a cell reference static with the $ symbol?

 

[Damon Ostrander]

Hi ferret,

One way that immediately comes to mind is to use a VBA user-defined function (UDF) to do your lookup (e.g., if you are using VLookup, call it from inside the UDF), and don't pass the table range as an argument but hard-wire it in the UDF. When you rename the sheet, VBA remains unchanged and still looks for a worksheet named "this week".

Here's a specific example. Suppose you are currently using the formula:

=VLOOKUP(B4,'this week'!$D2:$Q22,3,FALSE)

Replace this call with the UDF call

=MyVlookup(B4,3,FALSE)

where MyVlookup is the following UDF:

Function MyVlookup(Lval As Variant, Col As Integer, range_lookup As Boolean) As Variant
Dim Table As Range
Set Table = Worksheets("this week").[D2:A22]

MyVlookup = Application.WorksheetFunction.Vlookup(Lval,Table,Col,range_lookup)

End Function