have a look in the help index for INDIRECT
or
use a defined name range.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"CompeterN" wrote in message
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I need a excel/office 2003 formula to work out =countif(G$3:G$nn,G3) where
'nn' is calculated by another formula in another cell:
=M1+COUNTIF(B:B,B3).
Seems like it should be easy but nothing I've tried works.
None of the key words I've tried in Help have helped.
Can someone point me in the right direction please.

CompeterN (retired with no known office guru to help)