Advanced Techniques
Excel has many advanced features that you can use to tap into Excel's real power. In this chapter, I tell you about some of the advanced techniques I think you'll find most useful in your day-to-day work with Excel:
Names (Figure 1) let you assign easy-to-remember names to cell references. You can then use the names in place of cell references in formulas.
Figure 1. The reference to the selected range would be a lot easier to remember if it had a name like FirstQtrSales rather than just A4:D7.
3-D cell references (Figure 2) let you write formulas with links to other worksheets and workbooks.
Figure 2. 3-D cell references make it ...
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