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Business Solutions VBA and Macros for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
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Business Solutions VBA and Macros for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

by Bill Jelen, Tracy Syrstad
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
624 pages
14h 46m
English
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Chapter 6. R1C1-Style Formulas

IN THIS CHAPTER

Referring to Cells: A1 Versus R1C1 References

We can trace the A1 style of referencing back to VisiCalc. Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston used A1 to refer to the cell in the upper-left corner of the spreadsheet. Mitch Kapor used this same addressing scheme in Lotus 1-2-3. Upstart Multiplan from Microsoft attempted to buck the trend and used something called R1C1-style addressing. In R1C1 addressing, the cell known as A1 is referred to as R1C1 because ...

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