Unless he made a typo in his example, there is something special, and
there's nothing "static" about his formula.

His *relative* column reference in the Offset formula makes the calculating
range location relative to the location of any formula using the named
range - dependant on which column was in focus during the creation of the
named range.
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Regards,

RD

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"T. Valko" wrote in message
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INDIRECT requires a text representation of a *valid reference*. The OFFSET
formula does not meet this requirement. When you call SGDCalendar you're
actually calling the named OFFSET *formula* which is not a text
representation of a valid reference.

About the only way I know of to get around this invovles using the CHOOSE
function. However, since you're concatentating strings to build the named
range this adds complexity to the mix. I love complexity! <g

There's nothing "special" about your named range, it's just a static
range. Why don't you just use:

SGDCalendar =Sheetname!$A$1:$A$4000

Replace "Sheetname" with the actual sheet name.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"nashism" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have defined a range using the following syntax:

SGDCalendar=Offset(A$1,0,0,4000,1) in a worksheet

I have similarly defined other names like MYRCalendar, IDRCalendar
primarily because I have other data that is labeled starting SGD, MYR
etc that I would like to combine this with.

now when I try to get a value from the range as INDEX(SGDCalendar,1,1)
it works correctly

but if I do something Iike INDEX(Indirect("SGD"&"Calendar"),1,1) it
gives me an #REF! error (note that "SGD" and "Calendar" will be
strings that will come from elsewhere in my workbook)

I have troubled many people around me to solve this but cant seem to
get any further. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

ciao
Nash