Appendix A. Working With Range Names
What's in a Name? Plenty, if it's a Range
It's easy enough to understand how to identify a range – e.g., A34:R78 refers to all the cells camped out between A34 and R78, including those two cells which hold down the upper left and lower right corners of the range. But that reference isn't as informative as it could be. You might want or need to know what kind of data populates a range, be they test scores, income figures, or population statistics. As a result, Excel lets you name a range and use it in a formula, so that an expression such as
=SUM(A6:A20)
could be rewritten to read
=SUM(Income)
where the word "Income" represents or acts as a proxy for A6:A20, which could be listing a collection of income data. Naming ...
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