Hi StanJ,

> The normal cell reference (=e69-c69) returns the correct answer.

ok.

what ist the adress of the top-left-cell of range "namerange"?
what ist the result of
=OFFSET(namerange,0,0,,)
and
=OFFSET(namerange,0,-2,,)
and
=row(namerange)
and
=column(namerange)


arno