Changing range references in Name Manager

Copper Contributor

I am getting a strange result in Excel Names Manager. I want to set up 6 Named Ranges with each having some version of this formula:

=OFFSET(Assignments!I3, 0,0,COUNT(Assignments!H:H),1)

which should return a variable length single column array starting at I3 and going for how ever many rows that have numeric data in column H.

When I type this into the Refers To field in a new Name under Name Manager, everything works great.

When I go and type in the second entry, THE FIRST ENTRY CHANGES!!! So, I create a second Named Range with

=OFFSET(Assignments!K3, 0,0,COUNT(Assignments!J:J),1)

and it works fine BUT THE FIRST NAMED RANGE WILL HAVE BOTH "I" and "H:H" changed, sometimes to "K" and "J:J", sometimes to "M", "L:L" and sometimes to "UXV" and "UVU:UXU".

 

AS an example, the Named Range shown in the attached screenshot file was typed in as "M" and "L:L" but have been changed.

 

This is a new version of Excel but don't ask me what version as that information is now hidden. This used to work just fine on Office 2010.

 

How do I get past this???

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bob Martin

1 Reply

@Bob_Martin , most probably you need to lock you references, use $ sign for that, like

=OFFSET(Assignments!$I$3, 0,0,COUNT(Assignments!$H:$H),1)