Need help with concatenation syntax

Pawtang

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I've got this egregious bit of code here. It won't do any good to explain exactly what its trying to do; the main part I am trying to correct the syntax for s in the first "Indirect" function. I am trying to pull references from two cells into the formula, from cell C3 and cell H3. I am getting a #REF ! error

Code:
=COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C3&"'!C$'"&$H3&"':W$'"&$H3&"'"),"Y")/(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C3&"'!C$10:W$10"),"Y")+COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C3&"'!C$10:W$10"),"N"))

It worked when I just had this:
Code:
=COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C4&"'!C$10:W$10"),"Y")/(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C4&"'!C$10:W$10"),"Y")+COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&$C4&"'!C$10:W$10"),"N"))

But i have to add the second reference to index to the correct row on the linked page.
Mainly I don't understand the whole nested quotation marks logic. Can anyone explain whats wrong and how to fix?
 

Excel Facts

Whats the difference between CONCAT and CONCATENATE?
The newer CONCAT function can reference a range of cells. =CONCATENATE(A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) becomes =CONCAT(A1:A5)
Ok, I've solved my own problem. It was the second appearance of single quotes - ' - that I had used. Took those out and it works just fine.
 
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