Hi,
eg. if c5=3
a[c5] should give me the contents of a3 like in any high level language

Excel does not treat a column as an array (table) so when C5=3, the formula
=A[C5] means nothing.
However, the formula =INDIRECT("A"&C5) will be equivalent to =A3 when C5 has
value 3
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"sudhakar" wrote in message
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Hi,
eg. if c5=3
a[c5] should give me the contents of a3 like in any high level
language

Try something like this:

=INDIRECT("A"&C5)

Does that help?

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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP-Pro


"sudhakar" wrote:

Hi,
eg. if c5=3
a[c5] should give me the contents of a3 like in any high level language