Which structured reference option returns only the data part of the table?

Mike says:

Thank you!!!! These table references were driving me nuts!!!

Col Delane says:

Hi Jon
I’m trying to get used to structured references, but it’s a bit of a love-hate relationship as there are a few significant disadvantages of Tables that really annoy me:
1. you can’t use a formula to generate the column heading (which then becomes the Table field name) – it must be a string (even entered numbers get converted to a string!)
2. formulas that reference a Table (at any level) become a bit lengthy & unwieldy because of the additional qualifying references (e.g. Table1[MyFieldName])
3. Whilst you can enter a structured reference to define the “Applies to” range in Conditional Formatting rules, that definition gets automatically converted to individual cell addresses (e.g. $A$1:$B$5)

Regards
Col

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Jon Acampora (Good Day)
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Uche Uche says:

I will not stop thanking you for your knowledge improving posts. this article and others like it is just a great work.

Thanks.

Robert (Bob) Keene says:

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Geard says:

Thanks Jon.
Does this mean that the formula will still get adjusted automatically when new data is added to the table as it does with the structured references?

Sudhakar says:

I will not stop thanking you for your knowledge improving posts. this article and others like it is just a great work.

Thanks

leon says:

Hi Jon
Table formulas always have a problem being at the bottom of the column. When i refresh my data from the SQL DB the formulas do not refresh accordibly to keep the table content of rows or gets wiped with the new number of rows
Putting it top of column it does not refresh to the ful
l row content

Pablo Silva says:

Thank you very much!! This was exactly what I was looking on the internet!

RabbitPie says:

Hi folks
I had table references but once I saved and closed the spreadsheet they changed automatically to cell references. My problem is how to change them back to table references? (my tables are data connections and change in size so having absolute references is not ideal).
Thanks

Marc says:

Hi Jon,

I have a table where certain columns are linked to tables in a prior month tab. For example, my October table (named “TblOct”) compares the current month data to the September table (named “TblSep”) in a separate tab and computes the variance. When I progress to the next month, I make a copy of the Oct tab and rename it Nov. I then change the references to TblSep that carried over from the tab I copied to TblOct and refresh the formulas to compute the variance. However, when I close and re-open the file, the references change back from the new TblOct back to TblSep. Why would Excel revert to the prior table reference? I appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thanks in advance.

Siva says:

Yes indeed it takes few mins of writing formulas this way to fall in love with structured references. Thank you for the videos and articles.. they are very easy to follow and pack a punch also… I fell in love with structured references but now i am heartbroken 😉 as its not working.

Thing is the structured reference is good until i close the workbook. Once i close and reopen it gets switched to range reference. I made sure that in options | formulas | “Use Table Names for formulas” is checked.

Could you please suggest what am i missing here.

Thank you in advance.

Rajendra says:

Hello, What happens if I convert structure table with formulas in it to Normal range and change it back to structure table, does it change to Cell reference, is there a option to change all structure formulas to cell address including the old ones. Thanks in advance.

Why my formula to the left eg column “A” has serial No formula A3 as A2+1 but doesn’t extend if I add the Row to structure table! I used alternative as =Row()-1 which works fine.

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