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Refer to a named range indirectly



 
 
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Old May 13th, 2009, 12:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
tberkom
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Default Refer to a named range indirectly

I'm looking to refer to a named range in a VLOOKUP formula that gets its
value from another cell. In other words, the cell contains a text value that
matches a named range in the workbook and I would like to capture that named
range in a VLOOKUP formula by reference to the cell that contains the named
range value. Hope that is clear enough...
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Old May 13th, 2009, 12:33 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Ashish Mathur[_2_]
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Default Refer to a named range indirectly

Hi,

Nestle the named range in the indirect() function I.e.
=vlookup(look_value,indirect(name),col_index,0)

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Ashish Mathur
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"tberkom" wrote in message
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I'm looking to refer to a named range in a VLOOKUP formula that gets its
value from another cell. In other words, the cell contains a text value
that
matches a named range in the workbook and I would like to capture that
named
range in a VLOOKUP formula by reference to the cell that contains the
named
range value. Hope that is clear enough...


 




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