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davidsjk
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Aug 06, 2019
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How to automatically extract data from a monthly report to a dataframe

Hello,   I am a fairly new excel user on mac, I receive monthly reports that all have the same format(but are not in a table). I wanted to set up a data frame to automatically collect and store i...
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    Kodipady
    Aug 09, 2019

    davidsjk 

    I updated few cells in the data frame tab with a possible solution( which is only partial solution). I am assuming that you will have one row per month in Dataframe.  if yes, you can update the first column "sheet name"  - this is the tab where you will extract data.  the cell references need to be updated in the formule in B2, C2, D2 etc (first row).  for example for country i assumed that L3 cell in 2019JUN tab  is the source, hence the formula in B2 is =IFERROR(INDIRECT($A2&"!L3"),"")  

     

    to complete this, you will have to populate the 1st row, with formula like in B2 and C2, then copy /paste these formula to the next rows.  of course, the first column "sheet name" needs to be updated as well.  

     

    hope it helps !!

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