Prevent a formula to be updated in an excel report
Using the dollar sign, it allows me to lock the cell reference but sometimes, when I delete a column or a row, the formula will be updated in spite that I put the dollar sign. It happens that for some tables, I need to lock totally the cell reference, no matter what I am doing, in such situation, I am using the indirect function.
When I use the formula ?
When I need to lock completely some particular cells.
How to use the formula ?
The formula in this topic is with "," so depending of the operating system of your PC, the formula should have ";" instead of ",".
How is the formula ?
=INDIRECT()
If I put this formula with the $ sign:
=SUM($B$2:$D$2)
And I am going to delete the column C, excel will update it automatically like that:
=SUM($B$2:$C$2)
So if I don’t want that, I put the indirect formula:
=SUM(INDIRECT("B2:D2"))
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