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#NAME Error when entering formula

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    #NAME Error when entering formula

    1st thread be gentle, ok here goes,

    instead of using the formula '=B1-B2' which is very simple I want the rows in the formula to be dependant on another cell eg

    If A1 = 1 and A2 = 2 I want to use '=B(A1) - B(A2) to get answer -1

    all I get is #NAME?

    Please help hope this makes sense
    Last edited by flyhigh515; 11-24-2008 at 03:19 PM. Reason: Poor Title

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    Welcome to the forum.

    Please take a few minutes to read the Forum Rules about thread titles, and then edit yours to make it descriptive of your problem.
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    Use this one


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    Maybe?

    =INDIRECT("B"&A1)-INDIRECT("B"&A2)
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    formula error please help!

    1st thread be gentle, ok here goes,

    instead of using the formula '=B1-B2' which is very simple I want the rows in the formula to be dependant on another cell eg

    If A1 = 1 and A2 = 2 I want to use '=B(A1) - B(A2) to get answer -1

    all I get is #NAME?

    Please help hope this makes sense

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    flyhigh,

    Threads merged.

    Your tenure here is going to be short if you don't read and follow the forum rules.

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    Thank you.

    Did you try NBVC and Shijesh's suggestion?

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