FORMULA REFERENCE BY CELL # OR CELL NAME

THIS ARE TWO EXAMPLES
HOW CAN I CONTROL TO HAVE IT ALWAYS DO CELL NAME OR CONTROL TO DO CELL #

Hi Tom,
From the tags below your question, I assume your are using Numbers 2.3 on OS X Mountain Lion.
In Numbers 2.3 > Numbers Preferences > General:
Similar in Numbers 3.2 (on OS X Mavericks)
That option (ticked or unticked) will allow you to to choose between Header Cell names and Cell References (such as A1).
With 'Use header cell names' ticked, you must have at least one Header Row in that table. Select the table and Menu > Table
In general, I would advise against using Header names as references in formulas. That will slow Numbers down and make it more difficult to debug errors. But that is your choice .
Please reply with your aim.
Regards,
Ian.

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"I am having trouble getting the formulas you suggested to work. I am not sure where the problem is coming from. Could you look at the following spreadsheet and tell me where I am going wrong? The following pic shows Day 1 and AUX tables. In Day 1 cell B1 a Drivers name is entered. As you can see by the formula that you gave the B2 is for "Product" not the drivers name "David"."
Hi br,
The formulas provided above apply directly to the set of tables shown with them. In each of these tables, the target cell, containing the name of the driver for that day is cell B2 on the table for that day.
For Day 1, the driver is Huey, found in cell B2 of Table 1, and the cell reference to retrieve the information from that cell is =Table 1::B2
The formula in B2 of Aux uses INDIRECT to build that cell reference from the fixed text string "Table ", the calculated value ROW()-1, and the text string "::B2"
ROW() returns the number of the row in which the function sits. In B2, that's row 2, and ROW() returns 2. -1 subtracts 1 from that value, leaving 1. In B2, ROW()-1 returns 1.
The ampersand is the concatenation operator. It joins the value before it to the value following it. The result is a text string. in the INDIRECT part of the formula, there are two & operators, one after "Table ", the other after ROW()-1.
"Table " & ROW()-1 & "::B2" with the result of ROW()-1 as the value between the two text strings.
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B2: =IF(LEN(INDIRECT("Table "&ROW()-1&"::B2"))<1,"",INDIRECT("Table "&ROW()-1&"::B2"))
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As shown, this is the formula in B4 of your Aux table. In Row 4, ROW() returns 4, and ROW()-1 returns 3.
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The error results from there being no table with that name.
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The fix to replace Product with the driver name is to change "::B2" to ::B1"
To fit the names of your day tables and the location of the driver's name on each, your formula in B2 should read:
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Regards,
Barry

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In the future it would be best to post your three additional questions as three new topics. Don't worry about whether anyone will look at them. This is a very active discussion area.
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3. Move that sidebar menu to the bottom??
No.
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marky3 wrote:
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Excellent!
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Thanks for the feedback.
If I often urge askers to look at the available resources, it's because a large range of questions asked in the forums are already answered in these documents.
As they are PDFs, they are easy to search in.
CAUTION
Download them while they are available.
Given what is delivered with iBooks Author, I'm afraid that we will not get such easy to use documents.
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