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HenryRoseman
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Jul 20, 2023

Structured Reference to Specific Cell in Table

I am trying to reference a specific cell in a table from either a separate cell in the same table or a separate sheet in the same workbook, but not from the same row. For example, using the (slightly modified) sample data from https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/using-structured-references-with-excel-tables-f5ed2452-2337-4f71-bed3-c8ae6d2b276e, I might want to make a separate sheet with a table of average sales by region.

 

RegionAverage Sales

North

=(C2+C7)/2
South=(C3+C9)/2
East=(C4+C5)/2
West=(C6+C8)/2

 

However, I would like to use structured references to improve the resiliency of my formulas. Notice that I cannot use Index for 'East' because I have East 1 and East 2. Is there another way to call a specific cell from a table in a formula? For instance, instead of C4, can I somehow call Dan's Sales Amount, such that if I add a row above 'Dan' or a column to the left of 'Sales Amount', or simply re-sort the data such that I have it descending by sales amount, my formula still works?

 

Sales Person

Region

Sales Amount

% Commission

Commission Amount

Joe

North 1

260

10%

 

Robert

South 1

660

15%

 

Dan

East 1

870

12%

 

Michelle

East 2

940

15%

 

Erich

West 1

410

12%

 

Dafna

North 2

800

15%

 

Jeff

West 2

770

12%

 

Rob

South 2

900

15%

 

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