Question

I have a excel table and I would like to compute values based on a set of rows.
Visually it’s something like:

block_1
...
block_n

Mblock

where each block has say 20 lines. The formulas I want to compute depend on Mblock. For the first block this works fine but when I drag passed the first block excel uses the lines that follow Mblock where I would like it to use again the first line in Mlbock and so on.

How can this be done in excel?

Answer 1

Assuming each block is 20 lines, Mblock is a named range for Mblock and you just want to return the relative Mblock value you could do this:

=INDEX(Mblock, ROW() - ROUNDDOWN(ROW()/20)*20)

Which should return the nth item in Mblock when called from n row in each 20 row block.