How do you create the equivalent of a named range in Numbers for iPad?

Question

At first I didn't think Numbers could handle named ranges but when I look at the formula written for the "Personal Budget Template"  The "Actuals" column is calculating using named ranges but I am not sure how the ranges were created...  In any case it does appear that there is a way.  Does anyone know how?

Answer 1

Those technically are not named ranges. Its using the information in the "header" rows. Once you make a row a header row and sum it (or include the whole colun in some function). It will use the data/name in the header row in the equation to make it clearer. I do not think you can make named ranges in Numbers.
I made a test excel workbook using two formulas to sum a range, one with named ranges one without and sent to my ipad, when i opened it up...and downloading... yep...  it converted the named range to a regular range with letters and numbers. no named ranges support.
But learn to use your header and footer rows to get the same affect in many functions.
When i assign both header rows and columns to a table, it combines them into one string to show "Jan 2001" when I had a header column with Jan in A2, and a header row with "2001" in B1, then used the value in an equation.
The one your looking at I think says something like "=Sum(actuals)". that formula is in a designated footer row, and has a designated header row. at the top of that column is the label "actual". if you look at the difference column formulas, you will see how it combined header rows and columns into a single text string and use it to cross reference the cell being used.
Jason