@Column Reference

Sarah123

I have a formula that I would love to make into a column formula but am unable to because I reference a cell (a helper cell I have in the first cell of the column that is the same as the column name). Without being able to use [column name]1 in a column formula I am unable to have it be a formula that can be easily copied when a new row is added. If we were able to use @Column it would be the same idea as the @Row in a formula.

Andrée Starå

Hi @Sarah123

I hope you're well and safe!

Here's a possible workaround or workarounds

• You could maybe reference the cell in a sheet-summary field instead, and then it would work to convert it to a column formula.

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Sarah123

I'm not sure that would work. I have a column for each resource and then the formula would look up the resources name (right now I have it manually entered into the formula instead of being able to reference the column name) and then the project name. This is the formula:

=IFERROR(INDEX(COLLECT({Hours}, {Resources}, "Resource Name", {Portfolio Project Resources Range 1}, [Project Name]@row, {Status}, <>"Completed"), 1), "")

If I could have the "resource name" updated depending on the column name/title than I wouldn't have to manually update each formula for each column (I have over 100 resource columns).

Alex Kolker

Could we have an @column reference to match the @row reference?  It would allow me to use a single formula across an entire row of a sheet (for a SUMIF calculation, for example), rather than having to paste the column header (twice) into the sum range cell by cell.