Have a look in the help index for INDIRECT

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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"Gluefoot" wrote in message
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I need to use a cell number in a function that will update itself for each
new row it is in. For example, my function looks like this: VLOOKUP(B3,
name,
2, FALSE), where "B3" is the number of the cell I need to use because I'm
in
row 3. If I were in row 4 the cell number I would use is "B4". I don't
want
to hard code all of these locations in so I'm wondering if someone knows a
way for excel to just update that cell number for each new row I'm in? I
tried =VLOOKUP("B"&ROW(), name, 2, FALSE) but that didn't work. I'm using
excel 2002. Can anyone help me?