Non-volatile alternative to SUMIFS(INDIRECT()) formulas

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To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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Excellent point. I've attached a dummy workbook to this reply, as suggested. Thank you!!

Why do you have the row numbers defined at the top? What is the purpose of that? I don't mean how it fits into the formula - I am asking why you are doing it that way. Surely a SUMIFS range set long enough for any eventuality would suffice:

=IF($I8<=$D$6,SUMIFS(INDIRECT("'"&L$6&"'!"&"$C$33:$C$200"),INDIRECT("'"&L$6&"'!"&"$B$33:$B$200"),$I8),0)

Why would you run into such errors? Why would the data layout differ from one dataset sheet to the next? Why do you need the separate datasheets anyway?

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Hi plsexcelhelp and welcome to the forum,

Because you are using Excel 2016, you have Get & Transform (used to be called Power Query) built into your version. I think you are trying to roll your 5 data sheets into a single table and amount. See the attached where PQ does this for you. I first saved your Dummy file (must be a saved file) then click on Data Tab and "From File". After removing nulls in Col2 only data is left on each sheet. The append the data together and I did a Pivot Table grouped by dates. I think this is what you are working towards. See the attached. Start learning Power Query?

Dummy workbook Power Query and Pivot Table.xlsx

AliGW -

I need to separate the DataSheets as each corresponds to an individual "Subject", and there's more than just raw data in these DataSheets.

What starts in row 33 in all of them is cash flow (CF) data. For example, I might have 100 CF entries for DataSheet 1 and 1500 for DataSheet 2.

Furthermore, underneath the CF data entry for each DataSheet, there might be financial modeling / calculations that are individual to each of the "Subjects". I can't standardize them all, unfortunately.