VLOOKUP from cell selection

chronotonFlux

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How wold I go about implementing a VLOOKUP that takes it's array range from a cell value?

For Example.

A1 = Sheet1
B1 = '[C:\Documents\File1.xls]Sheet1'
A2 = Sheet 2
B2 = '[C:\Documents\File1.xls]Sheet2'
A3 = Sheet 3
B3 = '[C:\Documents\File1.xls]Sheet3'

Instead of hardcoding:
D1 =VLOOKUP(C1, '[C:\Documents\File1.xls]Sheet1'$A$1:$F$90, 2)

to return a value, is it possible to replace the whole path/array address with a cell reference related lookup?

something along the lines of:
D1 = VLOOKUP(C1, A2 $A$1:$F$90,2)

I am trying to set up command that will read certain information from a file, but the file being read from changes based on a list selection.
 

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What about:

D1 = VLOOKUP(C1,INDIRECT(A2&"$A$1:$F$90",2)
 
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