i have a workbook consisting of several sheets. each sheet depicts data for several critera related to that specific sheet (the row fields are the same across each sheet) which is further broken down into categories specific for that area. in the summary sheet which also share the same rows i should be able to select a category (from a dropdown) which will give me a summary of those fields in each category.
i.e
the headings for the categories on each sheet would be 1 to 100(area 1, area 2, etc). furthermore fields making up the rows for those headings(e.g apples, pears, oranges, etc)
areas might overlap in town sheets.
the sheets are named by town (town 1, town 2, etc)
the summary sheet - i wish to see how many apples, pears, oranges was sold in a specific area across all the towns.
if i select say 'area 2' in the area dropdown, it will search across the sheets and display the totals of each of the items sold for area 2.

thank you for your help...

I have a question about merging two excel worksheets into one masterfile.

I have a first worksheet with daily stock price data for hundreds of firms over a couple of years (panel data). I have the following columns: Firm Number, Date and stock price.

Now I have a second worksheet containing accounting data for the same firms over the same years. Since the accounting data is yearly data, this sheet has less observations.
The columns I have in this sheet are: Firm number, Date,Fiscal Year, FiscalYear end month and a few accounting variables.

Now, I want to add in the columns next to the daily stock market data the accounting variables for that specific fiscalyear.
So for example:
I have a row with stock price of firm #1 at 27-12-2010. The accounting worksheet shows that the fiscal-year of firm #1 ends on 31-09-2010, so first I have in someway to determine in the daily stock price file that 31-12-2010 is fiscalyear 2011 for firm #1 and consequently, in the columns next to the stock price per 27-12-2010 I want to add the accounting variables of firm #1 in fiscal-year 2011.

I would like to do this with normal excel formula's (not vba), but I cannot find the solution...
I really hope you can help me!

Thanks in advance!
S.W.

Interesting question!

I never thought row function created numerical limits. 1 to 1048575.

I´ll comment here as soon as I have an answer.

Same logic i need to be use , but there is the problem when my id nos are more then the No.of row values i.e in excel 2007 total no of row is 1048575 , but hear my id value is more then rowno value i.e 5505982 so that i am not able to get the output .

can you plz sugest ..

Thanks
R Thamu

As far as I know using formulas, no!

But maybe pivot tables can solve your problem?
Excel Pivot Table Tutorial -- Multiple Consolidation Ranges

Is is possible to get this work with ID-names not numbers?
Here: "Create a sorted unique distinct list of numbers originating from multiple sheets"

Lets say if i have the id's like ALFA, BETA, GAMMA, DELTA etc. is it possible to collect all these unique names and combine some data from their rows and sheets? I assume the function small doesn't work anymore?

Thanks for good work!

Pls help me in this

see this post: http://www.get-digital-help.com/2010/03/29/consolidate-sheets-in-excel-vba/

I think I can solve your problem using vba. I hope I can post a solution here soon.