Help with INDIRECT Formula referencing a CSV file...

OzPanda

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Hi Excel Guru Wizards' brains' trust.

Can you spare a moment to help me with a formula. or suggestion an alt soln. Please.

Ok so here is the background.

In a folder, a new CSV file with the date gets added each day at the start of the day.

e.g. The folder has heaps of csv files.
"Data2022_08_10.csv"
"Data2022_08_09.csv"
"Data2022_08_08.csv"
"Data2022_08_07.csv"
"Data2022_08_06.csv"

I have an excel spreadsheet tool that I use. I want to add in formula inside to reference a CSV file. A1 A2 A3 the whole table like around 50 cells A1:E10.
I plan to use something like this =text(today(),"yyyy_mm_dd")&".csv" to get the latest CSV file that is for today.

How do I use INDIRECT to reference the csv data??
Also once I get that working, I want to add another feature so if it returns an error that is the CSV file hasn't been created yet, use the previous day. so today()-1.

I think excel lets you do some other CSV linking of the data but that way seems slow for some reason. Or should I do it in VBA and this method.

Is there a way to use INDERICT formula to get it to work?
 

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