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Article #33Re: Indirect addressing Excel 4.0
From: Tim Tow
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:03
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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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!infonode!timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com From: timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com (Tim Tow) Subject: Re: Indirect addressing Excel 4.0 Message-ID: <1992Nov4.140342.5268@infonode.ingr.com> Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator) Reply-To: timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com Organization: Intergraph Corp, Huntsville, Alabama References: <BAECHLER.92Nov3155440@liasun6.epfl.ch> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:03:42 GMT Lines: 25