Assigning names to cells in Microsoft Excel simplifies referencing the cell or cell range. As an example, instead of referencing "=Sheet1!$D$1:$K$23," you can define ...

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The default method for including a column reference in an Excel formula is to use the column letter, a convention that may make it difficult to interpret the parts of complex formulas. Microsoft ...