Assign value to a variable name

[Gnarlodious]

Hello. I am creating an Excel workbook for scheduling and billin
tutored students. One sheet contains the schedule, another the student
and their rate, and the last the teachers and their rate. The rate
won't be visible in the schedule sheet, only the student and teache
names. Therefore, I need to assign the value of the rate to the name a
though the name were a variable. If the values were updated they woul
need to update on the schedule sheet too, where the final calculatin
happens. This is complicated by the fact that students and teachers ca
be moved to any time slot.

I looked at "Linked Objects" but saw nothing about assigning values t
a variable name. If it is possible, how would I do it?

Thanks

 

[paul]

you can assign the cells which contain the rates a name and refer to that
name in formula.There are restrictions tho

Guidelines for names
What characters are allowed? The first character of a name must be a letter,
an underscore character (_), or a backslash (\). Remaining characters in the
name can be letters, numbers, periods, and underscore characters.

Can names be cell references? Names cannot be the same as a cell reference,
such as Z$100 or R1C1.

Can more than one word be used? Yes, but spaces are not allowed. Underscore
characters and periods may be used as word separators — for example,
Sales_Tax or First.Quarter.

How many characters can be used? A name can contain up to 255 characters.

Note If a name defined for a range contains more than 253 characters, you
cannot select it from the Name box.

Are names case sensitive? Names can contain uppercase and lowercase letters.
Microsoft Excel does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase
characters in names. For example, if you have created the name Sales and then
create another name called SALES in the same workbook, the second name will
replace the first one.

 

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Additional information

http://xldynamic.com/source/xld.Names.html