Question

I have on a sheet a range of numbers, from that range, how can I reference a full column or row given by index ?

I am using 2007.. I looked into HLookup/Vlookup/Index without success

Answer 1

I’m guessing you mean referencing the whole column/row as a range/array in another formula?

If so, the only way i can think of would be to use OFFSET

=OFFSET($A:$A,,MyColIndex-1)
=OFFSET($1:$1,MyRowIndex-1,)

thats…

=OFFSET(reference,rows,cols,[height],[width])

However this won’t work if you insert a column to the left of A, or a row above 1.

EDIT: just found a way around that little problem…

=OFFSET($A:$A,,MyColIndex-Column($A:$A))
=OFFSET($1:$1,MyRowIndex-Row($1:$1),)