Convert cell contents to range

[Guest]

I named a group of cells "northwest" which contains sales data. I could sum
the sales data with a formula =sum(northwest). Is there a way to sum the
sales data with a formula =sum(A2) where cell A2 contains the text
"northwest"?

 

[Biff]

Dedicated to Max:

Try this:

=SUM(INDIRECT(A2))

Note: this will not work if "northwest" is a dynamic named range.

Biff

 

[Guest]

Dedicated to Max:

=SUM(INDIRECT(A2))
Note: this will not work if "northwest" is a dynamic named range.

But this seems to work ok if "northwest" is a dynamic named range:
=SUM(northwest)

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[Guest]

But this seems to work ok if "northwest" is a dynamic named range:

=SUM(northwest)

Above comment is of course not relevant to the orig. post

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