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Spill Error with named ranges on a table
If named ranges when you shall use =Hours*Rate outside the table.
SergeiBaklan so you cannot use named ranges in the table?
was it the case that you could use named ranges in a table before and not get the spill error, I am just wondering as the tutorial used the named ranges in the table and it is not possible to do this now.
thanks for your help
Nope, you can't use them within the tables for the Excel which support dynamic arrays. Perhaps tutorial is bit outdated and for previous Excel versions.
SergeiBaklan yeah it must be and thanks very much for your help, hopefully this change is recognised in the exam as I am using 365 rather than 2016 . 🙂
If I have understood your situation correctly,
= hours * rate
would only have worked in O2016 because of implicit intersection, which causes the formula to return a sequence of single-cell results. Trying to enter a multi-cell (CSE) array formula would always have failed. Now as the defaults have changed in MS365, you could achieve the previous result using
= @hours * @rate
Better, I believe, is to use the Table for input data, but then switching to dynamic arrays for calculation.
