Thread: [Solved] value attached to a name
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Old 04-10-2011, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by grilem2 View Post
is it possible to have a name in a cell such as 2-way and have a fixed value say -4 attached to it?? so if i type 2-way in a cell the formula will automatically use that value.
As Kimberly says, names can't start with numbers - they can start with letters or an underscore. So you could define a name as _2Way, set its value to '4' (instead of using a cell reference), then reference the name via a formula. For example:
=A1*_2Way
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