Thanks, Paul. But unless there’s something I’m not understanding, that
doesn’t work, and it doesn’t work in the sense than when I copy the
formula down column C, the indexes don’t adjust as they do when I’m
not using range names.

Jim

On Jun 24, 1:12 pm, Paul Schreiner <schreiner_p...@att.net> wrote:
> I'm sure that your example is a very SIMPLIFIED version of what
> you want to do...
> I'm also going to assume that you know (or have a method to figure out)
> which rows/columns you want to use from the named range.
>
> The problem is that your named range is exactly that, a range.
> To select a specific row of a named range, use INDEX
>
> so, if you want to add B3 and A2,
> given the named range "Odd" is from A1:A5 (including header)
> and "Even" is "B1:B7",
>
> then =B3+A2 would be =index(Even,3)+index(Odd,2)
>
> hope this leads you to something helpful.
>
> Paul
>
> ________________________________
> From: Gaurav Bansal <aca.gau...@gmail.com>
> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:41:03 PM
> Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Using range names in formulas
>
>  
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:48 PM, jander <jim.ander...@bankofamerica.com> 
> wrote:
>
> (I've been told that my previous post was confusing, so I'll try
> again.)
>
> Suppose I have 2 columns, one contains odd numbers, the other even
> numbers. They are named ranges "Odd" and "Even", respectively.
>
>      A               B             C
> 1    Odd           Even
> 2    1               2
> 3    3               4
> 4    5               6
> 5    7               8
>
> I want to create a formula in cell C3 which adds the contents of B3 to
> A2, but which uses the range names instead of B3 and A2. I can do this
> if I'm trying to add values from the same row. For example, instead of
> B3 to A3 I can use Odd + Even. But I don't see how to do this for
> cells in different rows, eg, B3 + A2.
>
> I hope this is clear.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

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