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Re: Protecting end-points of a named range

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From: R. J. Glew
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:26
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In article <RON.92Aug19115827@bert.cs.byu.edu> ron@bert.cs.byu.edu (Ron Snyder) writes:

>  I have some budget sheets that are used by several accountants
>in my department.  The budget have many(!) named ranges that are 
>accessed by other worksheets.  Today one of the area heads called 
>me because a summary worksheet that refers to these named ranges
>is giving the wrong answers (like ERR).  It didn't take long to 
>figure out that between he and his accountants, some of the endpoints
>of the named ranges had been inadvertently deleted while they were 
>'cleaning' up the budget worksheet.

If I understand your question correctly, you want users to be able to add or 
delete rows without losing range name references.


      A       B      C   
1
2    \-      \- 
3   200     123     
4   344     767 
5   666     444
6   335     569
7    \-      \-
8  

/rncFIRST~A2.B7~


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From: rglew@cs-acad-lan.Lakeheadu.Ca (R. J. Glew)
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Subject: Re: Protecting end-points of a named range
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