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How would I do the following? Say cell B42 has a 7 in it. So I then want to
reference this element of column A, therefore A7. How would I do it?
Effectively referencing A[B42]. Thanks in advance.
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One way:

=INDEX(A:A,B42)


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How would I do the following? Say cell B42 has a 7 in it. So I then want
to
reference this element of column A, therefore A7. How would I do it?
Effectively referencing A[B42]. Thanks in advance.



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