Named Ranges

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Now to the sheets…

Named Ranges

If you’ve never named ranges in Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, don’t worry. I’d say your in the majority.

But, learning to do so can be very helpful.

In both Excel and Sheets, there’s a handy shortcut in the top left corner right below the File menu. It looks like a dropdown selector.

Simply highlight the range you’d like to name, and click in this box to type the name.

Now we can refer to this named range by a name that makes sense rather than by typing in the cell reference every time.

Here’s a sample Query statement using that named range in Google Sheets:

=QUERY(Data,"select * where A = 'Batteries'")

And here’s a similar filter in Excel to get the same result:

=FILTER(Data,Category=B1)

Named ranges help me simplify my sheets especially when I use a lot of functions, custom formulas and/or conditional formatting.

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