Named ranges and “Natural Language” formulas
It is possible, in
some versions of Excel, to have the same range name on different
sheets. This is not possible in Calc. However, if the duplicated
range name in Excel refers to the same cell in each case, then it can
be simulated in Calc with a range name without the sheet being
specified and thus the range name refers to the specified cell on the
current sheet.
Calc
does have Natural Language. This is where column or row labels
are used (without defining them as range names) in a formula. In
Excel, to refer to a cell, a space is used between the label names.
In Calc an exclamation mark “!” (sometimes called pling) is used.
In
Calc the names are enclosed in single quotes (done automatically by
Calc if the label starts with a letter and only has alphanumeric
characters). To turn this feature on or off use: Tools
> Options > Spreadsheet > Calculate > Automatically find
column and row labels.
