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Generating an Formula using concatenation in excel
This uses the XLM command EVALUATE within Name Manager where it works correctly just as HansVogelaar 's solution. With 365 the process can be taken a step further and the name can be a Lambda function.
EVALUATEλ = LAMBDA(formula, EVALUATE(formula))The sole advantage is that EVALUATEλ can be reused with multiple strings.
HansVogelaar Thanks for the Input Hans… I tried adding =Evaluate(formula) but it didn’t work because excel doesn’t have the evaluate function. Is there any way that I can give you the sample excel for this formula or somewhere we can talk about it?
It does have the EVALUATE function since that pre-dates the introduction of VBA to Office. However, it does not run on a standard worksheet, hence the way it is wrapped within a Name using Name Manager. It may work on a Macro sheet but that is outside my area of knowledge.
- Thanks for putting your valuable time on this Peter I will check the work around provided and get back to you in a Private message as well.
See the attached workbook. It uses PeterBartholomew1's elegant Lambda wrapper of EVALUATE.
Save the workbook to a Trusted Location for Excel. It is now a .xlsm workbook since the use of EVALUATE requires it.
Do I need to enable anything for this formula to work I see it says #BLOCKED
