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Wed 13 Apr 2011, 15:18 Delegate Nicola said...

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Named range

what is dynamic named range and how does one set it up?

Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:39 Trainer Simon said...

RE: named range

Hi Nicola,

Sorry about the delay in responding to you.

As you may know you can name a range of cells e.g. a2:a6 as countries. However if more items are added to the list you would have to redefine the named range.

If you use a Dynamic Named Range, as you add new items the range will automatically expand.

Please find the links below that will help explain:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830287

http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/DynamicRanges.htm

http://www.exceluser.com/explore/dynname1.htm

I hope this helps and answers your question.

Regards

Simon

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Sum Up All the Values in A Column

If you want to quickly calculate the Summed values of all cells in a column in Excel 2003 normally you would use the SUM formula. (eg if you wanted to calculate the values in Column C rows 10 to 25) the formula would be:

=SUM(C10:C25)

However, if you keep adding values to column C you would keep having to modify the above SUM formula which can get quite annoying.

To get around this you can sum all the values in a column using the following formula:

=SUM(COLUMN:COLUMN)

Which, in our example, would be:

=SUM(C:C)

NOTE You cannot place this formula in column C, or else Excel 2003 will show a circular reference error.

The formula must be placed in any other column, EXCEPT the one being calculated.

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