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Re: Indirect addressing Excel 4.0

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From: Tim Tow
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:03
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In article <BAECHLER.92Nov3155440@liasun6.epfl.ch>, baechler@lia.di.epfl.ch (Emmanuel Baechler) writes:
|> 
   [stuff deleted]
|> however be clearer for people who never used some of these languages: I need
|> a way to read and write cells whose address is the content of a given cell,
|> and which may be the result of a calculation.
|> 
|> I am already able to do this to READ a cell, with the functions
|> INDIRECT and ADDRESS. I however don't know how to select a cell whose
|> address is the content of a cell, in order to write in it. I have
|> tried several things, of the general form "SELECT(INDIRECT.."  or
|> "SELECT(CELL("content",<adr>.." and so on. None of them is however
|> working.  Without this tool, this application becomes useless because
|> almost everything has to be done at hand.

I think what you want to do is =SELECT(DEREF(reference))

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