You are trying to index the range D3:D62 (i.e. 60 cells), but your
expression:

2*ROWS($1:31)+COLUMNS($D:D)-2

will evaluate to 61, so Excel is telling you that this is outside the
range you are trying to index.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Mar 20, 4:35*pm, wrote:
Getting #ref error after row / cell is this a limit in excel 2003 tia
sal2
Greetings All

I’m getting a strange #ref error message in excel and I’m not sure
why. *Everything works great up to cell and row……But when I get past
that the #ref error pops up. *Is this a limit to excel 2003? Anyone
have any workarounds or recommendations?

The code I start to get the error at is =INDEX($D$3:$D$62,2*ROWS
($1:31)+COLUMNS($D:D)-2)

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Tia sal2