Is there any (somewhat) simple way to make the the SUM-function operate
with the text-strings returned by the ADDRESS-function?

Example:

[Cells C2] = 16
[Cells C3] = 35
[Cells D7] = 4

In my application C2,C3 are input cells were the user selects wich rows
he/she is to incude in the summary.

[Cell D2] = ADRESS($C$2;D$7;4) which returns "D16"
[Cell D3] = ADRESS($C$3;D$7;4) and the result is "D35"

Then in [Cell D4] I want to use SUM(D2;D3) and have it return the sum
of all cells from D16 to D35. In other words i want my "SUM(D2;D3)" act
as if it contained the formula "SUM(D16;D35)".

But since the result of the ADDRESS-funciton is a textstring it doesn't
work.
Is there any way to make the SUM-formula use the contents of cell D2
and D3 as cellrefenrences instead of text. Or is there any other way to
achive the result I want.

The point is to have a user interface were the user can select how many
rows should be included in the summary and then that selection is
"transfered" to the same two cells and those are used to get the
result.


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Try the INDIRECT( ) function - this should do what you want. Excel Help
has details.

Hope this helps.

Pete

This will do it =SUM(INDIRECT(D2):INDIRECT(D3))

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Is there any (somewhat) simple way to make the the SUM-function operate
with the text-strings returned by the ADDRESS-function?

Example:

[Cells C2] = 16
[Cells C3] = 35
[Cells D7] = 4

In my application C2,C3 are input cells were the user selects wich rows
he/she is to incude in the summary.

[Cell D2] = ADRESS($C$2;D$7;4) which returns "D16"
[Cell D3] = ADRESS($C$3;D$7;4) and the result is "D35"

Then in [Cell D4] I want to use SUM(D2;D3) and have it return the sum
of all cells from D16 to D35. In other words i want my "SUM(D2;D3)" act
as if it contained the formula "SUM(D16;D35)".

But since the result of the ADDRESS-funciton is a textstring it doesn't
work.
Is there any way to make the SUM-formula use the contents of cell D2
and D3 as cellrefenrences instead of text. Or is there any other way to
achive the result I want.

The point is to have a user interface were the user can select how many
rows should be included in the summary and then that selection is
"transfered" to the same two cells and those are used to get the
result.


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Thanks a bunch!!!!! That did the trick!!!

I have tried INDIRECT before but it didn't succeed. I now realize why;
by mistake I used ";" instead of ":" and thus made it SUM only the two
cells D16 and D35 from my example below.

Now I'm gonna rule my project


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