Hi Teixeira,

try to use an indirect function as:

DSUM(INDIRECT(A1),FIELD,CRITERIA)

Hope this helps
Regards from Brazil
Marcelo

"oteixeira" escreveu:


Hello
I'm having a problem with the DSUM function. As everybody knows,
parameters for this function are DSUM(database, field, criteria). I
have no problems with "field" and "criteria". My worksheet has a lot of
defined names ranges (which i stored in cells) and i wanted to use them
to replace the "database" parameter each time i choose a different
department from a list. For example i have range B6:F96 named as
"area_1". If i write the formula using =DSUM(area1, field, criteria),
it works fine. However, if a store the name "area_1" into cell A1 and
change the formula to =DSUM(A1, field, criteria) i get #VALUE. The
parameter criteria must be a cell with the name of the database column
and at lest one cell above with the filter to be applied. For these
parameter i can use a named range. Will it be possible that i cannot
use this technique for the database parameter?
Any help would be very much appreciated.


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