Formula substitution with cell reference

[KGee]

I have table of contents which lists all sheets in my workbook. I am trying to write a formula next to the sheet name that provides the number of items on each sheet that need to be reviewed. Basically a count of rows in column A of each sheet starting with row 5. The sheets are numbered like so but the description after each is unique.
[TABLE="width: 215"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]01. abc[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]02. def[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]03. ghi
...etc[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

I was trying to substitute the sheet name from the table contents with a COUNTA formula using single/double quotes but couldn't get it to work. Is it possible to do something like that? And I used 10,000 for the ending row as I know the hghest total from any sheet is ~800. Thanks

=COUNTA('01. abc'!$A$5:$A$10000)

 

[Computerman]

KGee,
If every cell in Column A (or Col B, C, D, etc) has a value in it. I would use the LastRow formula.

   lastrow=Sheet1.range("A1000").end(xlup).row

change the A to what every column you want to check. I also lessend the check value to 1000 rows. Using this formula, lastrow will
return the number of the last row that has data. Just check to see if the value returned is 5 or less, as you are starting on line 5.
HTH
Computerman