Building Expressions with Repeated Cell References

I have noticed a difficulty with building an expression using the 'Point and Click' method of inserting Cell References in Numbers 09.
The first time a particular cell is clicked, its reference is inserted properly in the expression at the cursor. If another reference to the same cell is required in that expression, clicking on the cell again does not result in another reference to it at the cursor, instead the cursor jumps to the previous reference to that cell.
The two options for adding a second or third reference to a particular cell are to type the reference or to keyboard-navigate to the cell with the Option key.
Am I missing something?
Jerry

Jerrold Green1 wrote:
Yvan,
A solution looking for a problem in my case! I like the drop-down menu for reference type,
I like the drop down menu too but I don't understand why the ƒx button appears only when I type = in a cell.
I always send the mouse to the format bar before typing = (as I did in AppleWorks and Numbers '08).
I may understand why they moved the Cancel and Accept buttons to spare some pixels for the formula but from my point of view, moving this ƒx button is boring
But maybe I'm the unique user with this epidermic reaction.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 19 février 2009 18:28:03)

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