Comments on: Calculating with the selected range

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:34:00 +0000

Your F9 is needed because Excel does not recalc on a cell movement. But by including the NOW clause you ensure that when Excel does recalc, that fomrula is included in the calculation.

By: G Mourmant

G Mourmant — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 21:57:00 +0000

Thanks for this tip.

What will be the difference with something like that :

Define the name sel_range as
=offset(selection(),,)

then use
=sum(sel_range)

It seems to work pretty well

However, I still haven't fix the problem of recalculation, even on the example given here.
So I have to use F9

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:22:00 +0000

It makes the name volatile so it gets recalculated every time.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:40:00 +0000

I could not, for the life of me, determine why &TEXT(NOW(),"") needed to be included in the Sel_Range definition, so I erased that portion of the formula. It appears to work correctly without the extra text. Am I missing something?

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:24:00 +0000

Devious!

By: Frank Kabel

Frank Kabel — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:09:00 +0000

Hi jan Karel
thanks
Re: Why use $A$1: Normaly then using the formula
=CELL(“address”,range)
you only get the upper left cell returnes. e.g.
=CELL(“address”,B1:C20)
returns
“$B$1?
and not
“$B$1:$C$20?

But if you use
=CELL(“address”,(A1,B1:C20))
you’ll get
$A$1,$B$1:$C$20
and now you only have to strip the first 5 characters to get the complete range string of the desired range

Frank

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:57:00 +0000

Nice one Frank. So tell me, what does the $A$1 do in the formula?