Thanks for your replies. It is encouraging to see that there really
are some advanced Calc users out there. Is there a better forum for
such an animal to make a nest?

On 10/22/05, Mark Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday, October 21, 2005, 10:46:01 PM, Bryce Schober wrote:
> > R1C1 is a completely different style of range addressing that excel
> > supports. It looks like "R3C8:R6C9", meaning "include cells in the
> > 3rd to 6th rows and the 8th to 9th columns, inclusive".
>
> Like the others have pointed out, there seems to be no "real" support
> for R1C1-addressing. But it seems to me, that there is a (quite clumsy)
> workaround. Nevertheless, it should work in most cases:
>
> You have to use a combination of the INDIRECT and ADDRESS functions.
> (Since I'm using the German version of OOo, I'm not totally sure if my
> translations of the function-names are correct, but I hope they'll
> point into the right direction at least.)
>
> So, to translate an Excel-like
>
>  =SUM(R3C8:R6C9)
>
> to Calc, use
>
>  =SUM(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(3;8) & ":" & ADDRESS(6;9)))
>
> Regards,
> Mark Kirchner
>
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