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Advanced concepts of Names in Microsoft Excel.

Use of Names :

One can give easily remind able names to a cell or range of cells. Name also can be given to a constant value or Formula.

Suppose you want to create a formula for calculating Dearness allowance in payroll, in future the rate of DA may very so you will need to put it at some known common location, change of rate at this location will change the payroll values by taking new rate for calculations.

Then formula for DA will look like =A2*DArate instead of =A2*Sheet!$B17$ where Sheet!$B17$ is tedious to remnd then DArate and one can read the formula with its desires.

Bit more advance thing.
We also can name a formula that can return a value. Or a constant. place cell pointer in B50 then make a name as follows.

Any formula like =if(A50>5, 0.50, 0.75) can be named (say as DAR) We can refer this name in worksheet as =A2*DAR DAR will be dynamically returned as 0.5 or 0.75 taking referenced cells value in A2 Amazingly its formula copy too work with taking into account relative references in names formula too.

We further integration of name defined for DA rates elsewhere which may vary in span of times.

Micorsoft help for the topic from which we derived it's above usage.
On the Insert menu, point to Name, and then click Define. In the Names in workbook box, enter the name for the formula. In the Refers to box, type = (equal sign), followed by the formula or the constant (constant: A value that is not calculated and, therefore, does not change. For example, the number 210, and the text "Quarterly Earnings" are constants. An expression, or a value resulting from an expression, is not a constant.) value.
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