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Indirect function - used to avoid ref error

When we deleted a data in cell or range of cells, then we the formula linked with that cells will shows the error which is called reference error (#REF!).

Through this trick we can avoid those errors -

Please use the formula =Indirect (ref_text)

Just type the cell reference of particular cell in double quotations

Examples: = Indirect(“A2”)





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