Auto-adjust references when adding rows/columns

If I recall correctly, it was the behavior of Appleworks that if you added, say, column B, making the old column B into column C, all references to B throughout were automatically changed to C. This does not happen in Numbers. Is there any way to make this the default behavior or a different command to add rows/columns that causes references to automatically be adjusted accordingly?

OK, this is going to make me sound really stupid, but I actually was so confused and tired that I meant the exact opposite of what I said. I was making a ledger-type spreadsheet keeping a running balance, and I wanted cells in the balance column to continue referring to the cell directly above them rather than to one absolute cell that used to be directly above them. That's how it works in Appleworks. I think.

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Numbers missing reference after adding rows

Hi,
I came into a strange situation (which I did not have before).
I have a sheet summary contaning formulas that uses cells from a different sheet. The source sheet contains more than 100 rows containing different numbers which are used in more than 50 formulas in the summary sheet.
When adding rows inbetween the existing data sheet rows, I see that the summary sheet furmulas, in some cases, do not reference to the correct row number (they all should shift to the new row number) any more (out of 50 references only four got currapted).
Any ideas are appriciated (is this a known bug).
Thanks,
Ziv

Ziv,
First, I want to thank you for asking a question that got me thinking about something I hadn't really considered before.
I am not entirely sure I understand your question or the test you proposed in the second post, but if I am reading it correctly, what you are expecting is the way Numbers is designed to work (and the way I have seen it work) and when I try the test from your second post I get the results I expect.
That is, a cell reference points to a cell, not a location; if you move that cell (for example, by adding a row above it, which moves it down one row) the reference in the formula is updated to reflect the new location, but the result of the calculation doesn't change.
But this got me wondering about how Numbers dealt with references to ranges of cells. For example, the formula =SUM(C3:C6) is equivalent to =SUM(C3, C4, C5, C6), but what happens when you add a row after row 4? Apparently, the second expression remains a sum of the values in four cells, but the values of C5 and C6 are changed to reflect the fact that they have moved to C6 and C7. However, in the first expression, the new cell is added to the range, so that it is now the sum of five values. Actually, if you add a row (or column) to one that passes through a range, in the middle, or on the outside, the formula updates to add the new cell to the range, even if you are adding cells immediately below the bottom row in the range (so none of the cells in the original range actually move).
I'm not sure any of this has much to do with your problem, unless possibly one (or four) of your expressions is referring to a range that happens to be one cell, which would update differently from one referencing a simple cell. As Jerry has said, it's pretty hard to know anything without knowing what expressions your formulas are using.
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