Excel Vlookup with cell reference

Question

I have a cell range that I named \"cell_range\" in Excel. I want to extract the fourth row and fifth column from this table. The formula,

=vlookup(4,cell_range,

Answer 1

This is a great alternative to the use of INDIRECT. Indirect is intuitively easy to use but I agree that users should stay clear of it. For workbooks with many sheets I suggest using a macro to list them all rather than manually creating a list of sheets. See https://www.automateexcel.com/vba/list-all-sheets-in-workbook/