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    Re: Using INDIRECT with named ranges

    Thank you both for the responses. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to solve this problem yet and would appreciate your continued advice.

    What I would like to do is build a particular named range as a text string (using the contents of certain cells) and have that particular named range refer to one of multiple other named ranges. I've attached a new spreadsheet with a more complicated example to try to illustrate the situation.

    In this new example, "List_Current" is a range that refers to either "List_Current_A" or "List_Current_B" and "List_Future" is a range that refers to either "List_Future_A" or "List_Future_B". The determination of A or B and the determination of Current or Future are made by referencing cells in the worksheet.

    The formulas highlighted in yellow illustrate what I would like to do. What I don't understand is why directly using the named range List_Current works (as done in cell L14) but using INDIRECT to reference "List_Current" does not work. Based on the Excel help and my own past experience, this seems exactly what INDIRECT is intended to do- return a reference specified by a text string.

    Any suggestions? If you have alternate approaches to tackling this I would enjoy hearing them as well. I would like to avoid building the text strings as "List_Current_A" and "List_Current_B" because my master spreadsheet was constructed to reference only "List_Current"- hence my desire to work with that name only rather than each of the possible names that it might refer to.

    Thanks!
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