Comments on: How to Get Direct Results Indirectly http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/how-to-get-direct-results-indirectly Stop working for your data. Make your data work for you. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sandy http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/how-to-get-direct-results-indirectly/comment-page-1#comment-2759 Sandy Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:05:32 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/how-to-get-direct-results-indirectly#comment-2759 Thanks very much for pointing this out Jon. I'll revise the demo file and edit the post to account for this later on today. Thanks very much for pointing this out Jon.

I’ll revise the demo file and edit the post to account for this later on today.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/how-to-get-direct-results-indirectly/comment-page-1#comment-2758 Jon Peltier Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:20:50 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/how-to-get-direct-results-indirectly#comment-2758 Your IF statement to put single quotes around certain sheet names is a good first step, but there are many other characters besides a space which require single quotes. All of these are valid sheet names: Sheet1 Sheet 1 Sheet-1 Sheet(1) All but the first require single quotes around the sheet name. Your formula only works if the offending character is a space. I tested a formula of this form: =IF(ISERROR(INDIRECT($B1&"!A1")),"'"&$B1&"'!"&$C$1,$B1&"!"&$C$1) where B1 held a sheet name and C1 a cell address. Then for fun I intentionally put an error in INDIRECT($B1&"!A1"), and relearned something I'd forgotten. <b>Even though Sheet1 does not require single quotes, it does not reject single quotes.</b> My earlier formula can be simplified to: ="'"&$B1&"'!"&$C$1 Your IF statement to put single quotes around certain sheet names is a good first step, but there are many other characters besides a space which require single quotes. All of these are valid sheet names:

Sheet1
Sheet 1
Sheet-1
Sheet(1)

All but the first require single quotes around the sheet name. Your formula only works if the offending character is a space.

I tested a formula of this form:

=IF(ISERROR(INDIRECT($B1&”!A1″)),”‘”&$B1&”‘!”&$C$1,$B1&”!”&$C$1)

where B1 held a sheet name and C1 a cell address. Then for fun I intentionally put an error in INDIRECT($B1&”!A1″), and relearned something I’d forgotten.

Even though Sheet1 does not require single quotes, it does not reject single quotes.

My earlier formula can be simplified to:

=”‘”&$B1&”‘!”&$C$1

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