External Reference Using Cell Values?

Cypris2369

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
The following will obviously work so as long as SourceWorkbook.xlsx has a sheet named Sheet1:
=[SourceWorkbook.xlsx]Sheet1!$A$1
but what I want is this..
A1 = "SourceWorkbook.xlsx"
A2 = "Sheet1"
A3 = "$A$1" (as text)
A4 = =[A1]A2!A3

This obviously does not work.

Is there a way to achieve my goal? So far the only thing I can think of is to populate A1-A3 and then have a button to execute a VBA script that will assemble the formula for A4.
 

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Will the source workbook be open?
 
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