Chapter 22

The OFFSET function

Questions answered in this chapter:

  • How can I create a reference to a range of cells that is a specified number of rows and columns from a cell or another range of cells?

  • How can I perform a lookup operation based on the right-most column in a table range instead of the left-most column?

  • I often download software product sales information listed by country/region. I need to track revenues from Iran as well as costs and units sold, but the data about Iran isn’t always in the same location in the worksheet. Can I create a formula that will always pick out Iran’s revenues, costs, and units sold?

  • Each drug developed by my company goes through three stages of development. I have a list of the cost by month for each ...

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