Strings in formulas for cell references

Peteor

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I am trying to make the following work in Excel, not VBA.

=INDEX('[&A2&.xlsm]&B2&'!$B:$G,5,1)

I know I am missing string quotations, but am unsure what else is missing. Does anyone have any input here?
 

Excel Facts

Which lookup functions find a value equal or greater than the lookup value?
MATCH uses -1 to find larger value (lookup table must be sorted ZA). XLOOKUP uses 1 to find values greater and does not need to be sorted.
You need to use INDIRECT to do that.
 
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I am a bit confused on the usage of this function. I see the Indirect function is used to return a valid cell reference from a text string. I attempted to no avail:

=INDEX('[Indirect(A2).xlsm]Indirect(B2)'!$B:$G,5,1)

What would you change here?
 
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Try
=INDEX(INDIRECT("'["&A2&".xlsm]"&B2&"'!$B:$G"),5,1)
 
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