Question

I am trying to use one single formula across multiple cells for calculating a value, dependent on the specific row and column of which the formula is applied, but relative to the row itself. Sounds a little cryptic, so an example:

I have the following three rows,
Row 91: 10|Wheat|60,00|0,00
Row 92: 11|Banana|91,20|1,00
Row 93: 12|Milk|200,00|182,00

Where the | represents a separation between each column, which are named by letter (as Excel does by default). So the value of cell A92 would be 11. Now, column D is generated using the following formula: =((C92/100)*D11), basically taking the value of cell C92 (91,20) dividing it by 100, and then multiplying it by whatever value is held in cell D11 (the same column as the one I am generating a value in, but using the value from column A for reference of what value to multiply by).

Now, seeing as I need to use this formula in many rows, I want to basically to something like this: =VALUE(=CONCATENATE("D"; ROW();)/100)*CELL("address")), but this is not a valid formula. To put it in words:

1. Get the value of cell D+current row number (for example D9 at row 9 etc.)
2. Divide this by 100
3. Multiply this by the value of current column letter+current row number (E69 at cell E69 etc.)

I hope someone has an idea of how to achieve this.

Answer 1

You can do this with OFFSET, but you may very well get circular references or errors if your data is not clean.

=(C92/100)*OFFSET(D92,$A92-ROW(),0,1,1)

The OFFSET says: Get the value of a 1 row 1 column range that is (the value in A92 – current row number) rows offset from this row, but in the current column), which for your data is D11