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R. Stahl
May 15, 2017Copper Contributor
Excel 2013 table wrong formula extension with 'mask'
Dear all, just experienced some strange habit in Excel, version 2013. I've created a table with some columns, the first for numbering. The table starts in cell B6 with headline, subsequent data entr...
- May 15, 2017
Hi,
With the table try to use (if "b" is the name of the column)
=ROWS(B$7:[@b])*(LEN(C7 & D7)>0)
to take the rows between first one and the current. Or even better
=ROWS(B$7:[@b])*(LEN([@c] & [@d])>0)
With autoexpanding of the table initial B7 is interpreted as the last row in the table and substituted accordingly
R. Stahl
May 15, 2017Copper Contributor
just found out, the same behaviour appears when entering data manually without the use of the command 'mask' . Seems to be a problem of the table-definition.
BR
R. Stahl
May 15, 2017Copper Contributor
Thanks guys,
I got it running! Didn't expect it to be a known problem - and even would have known how to write a search phrase to find it.
Now I know, what to do. Thank you very much, indeed.
BR