References By Using Paths To Other Workbooks

Aug 11, 2009

is it possible to use references and concatenate them together that they are still references?

i have in:

file1.xls
sheetX:
A1: 'C:Infonic[file2.xls]sheet2'

file2.xls
sheetY:
A1: test

what i need is in sheet2 of file1

the value of file2.xls!sheetY!A1 = test
the problem is that i need to use the path to file2!sheet2 of the cell A1 in sheetX

is it possible to use sheetXA1 together with sheetYA1 as reference in sheet 2 so that i get back test as value.

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