One way would be to use a VBA function that you can call in a formula. The function below will return the contents of a cell address (this will not work for ranges in its current form) across all worksheets other than the active sheet.
Public Function AcrossSheets(rngAddress As String, Optional includeThisSheet As Boolean = False, Optional wText As String) As Variant Application.Volatile Dim tmpResults As String, ws As Worksheet If includeThisSheet Then For Each ws In Worksheets If wText <> "" Then If InStr(ws.Name, wText) <> 0 Then tmpResults = tmpResults & ws.Range(rngAddress).Value & ", " End If Else tmpResults = tmpResults & ws.Range(rngAddress).Value & ", " End If Next ws Else For Each ws In Worksheets If ws.Name <> ActiveSheet.Name Then If wText <> "" Then If InStr(ws.Name, wText) <> 0 Then tmpResults = tmpResults & ws.Range(rngAddress).Value & ", " End If Else tmpResults = tmpResults & ws.Range(rngAddress).Value & ", " End If End If Next ws End If tmpResults = Left(tmpResults, Len(tmpResults) - 2) AcrossSheets = Split(tmpResults, ", ") End Function
To use this code, press Alt+F11 in Excel, insert a new module, and paste in the code.
So, if, for example, you want to sum the values of B2
from each sheet other than the active sheet, you would use the following array formula (entered by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter):
=SUM(VALUE(AcrossSheets("B2")))
To include the value of B2
on the active sheet, use the array formula:
=SUM(VALUE(AcrossSheets("B2",TRUE)))
To only sum the values of B2
on sheets that include "Monthly" in the sheet name (not including the active sheet), use the array formula:
=SUM(VALUE(AcrossSheets("B2",FALSE,"Monthly")))
Note two things:
AcrossSheets
returns an array of values. Because of this, it should only be used in array formulas.- The array returned by
AcrossSheets
contains values as strings (text). If you expect numerical data to be returned by the function (as in the examples above), you must wrap the function call inVALUE()
. This will convert the string data to numerical data.