

Here is our Dynamic Named Range in Excel Tutorial that will show you how to do that. This uses the same method as we illustrated above except that the OFFSET() function and its contents are contained within a Named Range and this Named Range is then used in the formulas and functions in the spreadsheet whenever you need to reference a range that you want to update each time you add a value to the range or list. One commonly used way around this is to use Named Ranges that dynamically update when you add new values to a range. If you make formulas and function dynamic by using the OFFSET() function as mentioned above, it will cause confusion and clutter very quickly when you make large formulas. The COUNTA() function counts all cells that are NOT empty whereas the COUNT() function only counts the cells that have numbers in them. If you are in Excel 2007 and later you can use the COUNTA() function instead of the COUNT() function. Dynamic Ranges that Include Text and More This way, the entire column will be referenced. If you use Excel 2007 or later, just use A:A as the argument for the COUNT() function, as shown in the first dynamic example above. The range reference that you use for the COUNT() function should be large enough to hold any size list that you could have in the future so it does not need to be changed. The COUNT() function counts all cells in the range that have a number. Change A:A to whatever column contains your list of data. Then, we need to use the COUNT() function as the 4th argument for the OFFSET() function in order to figure out how big our range should be. To use the OFFSET() function to return a dynamic range we simply need to put the first cell in the range as the first argument, A2 in this case.
