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I have a simple worksheet that tracks my mortgage payments. At the top of
the sheet I've created a summary section that lets me see the impact of changes (e.g., amortization period, interest, lump sum payments, etc) made to my mortgage. I've also created a cell to report my current balance (based on today's date). Normally, to populate one cell (say cell E25) with the contents of another (say cell H57) you would simply insert =H57 in cell E25. No problem. BUT, if the cell address varies according to today's date, how do I insert the result of a calculation to point to the referenced cell? The calculation I use to determine the desired cell identifier for the current balance is: =CONCATENATE("column_identifier",(INT((TODAY()-C2)/14)+5)) WHE column_identifier is the column letter for the balance entries following bi-weekly payments C2 is the cell containing the start date for the mortgage INT returns an integer result for: {[(today's date) - (start date)]/14} . . . the division by 14 relates to bi-weekly entries +5 represents the necessary offset in row numbers to identify the correct "current" entry The result of this calculation gives me the correct cell reference for the current balance information BUT I do not know how to use it to retrieve the related contents in the Summary cell. I've tried stacking the CELL(["contents"],[reference]) function ---- CELL("contents",CELL("contents",[cell reference for the concatenation calculation])) --- but that syntax is invalid. Any suggestions ???? Dave |
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