How to make a reference to a cell of another sheet, when the sheet name is the value of a cell?

Hi,

In excel 2007, I have a formula in a cell like the following:

=COUNTIFS('2008-10-31'!$C:$C;">="&'$A7)

Now I want to make the name of the sheet ('2008-10-31') be dependent on the value of some cell (say A1). Something like:

=COUNTIFS(A1!$C:$C;">="&'$A7) // error

Is there is way to do this? Or do I have to write a VBA-Macro for it?

From stackoverflow

• You are looking for the INDIRECT worksheet function:

  =INDIRECT("SHEET2!A1")
  =COUNTIFS(INDIRECT(A1 & "!$C:$C"); ">=" & $A7)
  

  The function turns a string into a real cell reference.

• INDIRECT does what you want. Note that if the sheet name has any spaces, you need to put single quotes round it, ie

  =COUNTIFS(INDIRECT("'" & A1 & "'!$C:$C"); ">=" & $A7)
  

  mr_georg : Not only when it has spaces, but also other special characters like '-'

  Tomalak : That's true. I didn't think of that. +1