Try this UDF

Function EvalCell(RefCell As String)
EvalCell = Evaluate(RefCell)
End Function

Usage is: =EvalCell(cellref)

Where cellref contains =SUM(D3:D1000) or simply SUM(D3:D1000) or A1 + A2

Gord Dibben XL2002

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:46:04 -0800, "Phillip2001" wrote:

if the content of a cell is the string made up of ="=sum(d3."&"d"&"1000)" which shows up as =sum(d3.d1000) how would one actually evaluate this in another cell so it would show the sum of the column d from cell 3 to 1000. Is there no eval(c1) or equivalent...