There not much to discuss. The fact is that the DFunctions in Excel are
poorly designed and not user friendly at all. There is nothing intuitive
about them they go against the grain of everything good about Excel. Worst of
all is that you are forced to refer to a static range when creating criteria.
This Is an abomination. I know I am writing this message to deep space so I
think I will just go vomit all over my computer knowing that Microsoft
doesn't intend to improve this product at all. These functions have been lame
since pre-1997. The Lotus 123 functions worked the way you would want. The
criteria could be entered as part of a singel cell expression.

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