I started a formula that I thought was fairly simple. However, I cant
seem to make it work.

Basically, I have a spreadsheet that gives me the rate of return on my
investment. Each day I enter the value of my investment in the cell
below the previous days value. So the formula would look like this:
(C226-C35)/C35
The problem is I have to change the row reference (C226) to the cell
containing the new value (say C227) each day (I dont like doing that).


Is there a way to have my formula automatically update to the newly
added value each day?


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Use:

=(OFFSET(C34,COUNT(C34:C10000),0)-C35)/C35

remember, there should be nothing in the column C34 onwards, only the prices
should be there.

Mangesh


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I started a formula that I thought was fairly simple. However, I cant
seem to make it work.

Basically, I have a spreadsheet that gives me the rate of return on my
investment. Each day I enter the value of my investment in the cell
below the previous days value. So the formula would look like this:
(C226-C35)/C35
The problem is I have to change the row reference (C226) to the cell
containing the new value (say C227) each day (I dont like doing that).


Is there a way to have my formula automatically update to the newly
added value each day?


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Sorry, make it:

=(OFFSET(C34,COUNT(C35:C10000),0)-C35)/C35

Mangesh



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Use:

=(OFFSET(C34,COUNT(C34:C10000),0)-C35)/C35

remember, there should be nothing in the column C34 onwards, only the
prices
should be there.

Mangesh


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I started a formula that I thought was fairly simple. However, I cant
seem to make it work.

Basically, I have a spreadsheet that gives me the rate of return on my
investment. Each day I enter the value of my investment in the cell
below the previous days value. So the formula would look like this:
(C226-C35)/C35
The problem is I have to change the row reference (C226) to the cell
containing the new value (say C227) each day (I dont like doing that).


Is there a way to have my formula automatically update to the newly
added value each day?


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Yes there is a way, i just figured out how to do it myself!

If you have an equation that sums an entire column like =SUM(A1:A50)
and you need it to keep updating, just insert a row within the range of
rows 1 to 50, and the formula will automatically update to =SUM(A1:A51)


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Faz,

the OP will be simply entering the new value at the end of the column, and
not inserting a new row everytime.

Mangesh




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Yes there is a way, i just figured out how to do it myself!

If you have an equation that sums an entire column like =SUM(A1:A50)
and you need it to keep updating, just insert a row within the range of
rows 1 to 50, and the formula will automatically update to =SUM(A1:A51)


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