Using text in a cell as input for a formula

This has been driving me nuts. I have a workbook that has multiple sheets, and I’m trying to create a “summary” sheet. I pull information from other sheets in the book, and I’m trying to ease the process by writing a formula that takes the name of the sheet that is listed as text in a cell that is in the same sheet I’m working in, and using it as the sheet name for the formula. For instance I want the data in Sheet1 cell B5…so I type $Sheet1.B5 in the cell, and I get what I want. But instead of doing this 70 times, I’d like to do something like this:

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so that I can copy down the list of 70 or so cells. Is this even possible? I can’t seem to find a function or combination of functions to do it. The only thing close to what I’m looking for is T(), and it doesn’t seem to play nice with anything else.

Welcome to community @acasale!

You are looking for INDIRECT() function. The function returns the reference specified by a text string. Please see this small example (8.9 KB) attached.

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This is perfect! Thank you so much!!!