Indirect and dynamic ranges

[Sam]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble using a dynamic named range through
Indirect.

I have a dropdown in cell C1 that selects the month. Each
month has a static named range. I call the month in a
formula that uses Indirect. This worked fine until I tried
using dynamic named ranges for the months.

When using dynamic ranges INDIRECT($C$1) now evaluates to
#REF!. If I change back to static named ranges then the
formula once again works properly.

The formula for the dynamic range is correct:

=OFFSET(2004!$C$1,0,0,COUNTA(2004!$A:$A)-1,1)

Any ideas?

 

[Sam]

Well, apparently Indirect will not accept a dynamic named
range as an argument.

So, how can I work around this?

C1 is the dropdown that lists the months.

Here's the portion of the formula that references C1:

....SMALL(IF(INDIRECT($C$1)<>""......

How can I select Jan from the dropdown and end up with
this without hard coding:

....SMALL(IF(Jan<>""......

Jan is the dynamic range that refers to Sheet1!C2:Cn

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Jason Morin]

INDIRECT only works with cell references and ranges, not
formulas. But there may be a work around. Follow me on my
example:

I have a dynamic range of numbers I want to sum. My "jan"
list is D1n, and "feb" is in E1:En.

I set up 4 defined names as such:

jan =Sheet1!$D$1
jan1 =Sheet1!$D:$D
feb =Sheet1!$E$1
feb1 =Sheet1!$E:$E

The user selects a month in the drop-down in cell B1, and
I use the following formula to get the sum:

=SUM(OFFSET(INDIRECT(B1),,,INDIRECT(B1&"1")))

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

 

[Sam]

Jason, thanks for the reply.

Well, to be honest my goal was to come up with a work-
around for Indirect so that I could use a formula based
dynamic named range.

I have come up with that work-around. It involves using
Choose and Vlookup. It's a real hack, for sure, but it
works.