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Get column name (columnname as A,B,C, etc) as input inside cell

Posted on April 6, 2015 By ANmar
Get column name (columnname as A,B,C, etc) as input inside cell

Excel already has the formula ROW()
=Row()
Which as we may already know will give us the number of the row we are in, if you add no parameters

4-6-2015 9-25-15 AM

However, the COLUMN() is kind of tricky

Because of the fact that cell addresses (or references) are based on the old style of R1C1

=Column()

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