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  <bookmark_value>automatic addressing in tables</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>natural language addressing</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>formulas; using row/column labels</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>text in cells; as addressing</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>addressing; automatic</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>name recognition on/off</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>row headers;using in formulas</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>column headers;using in formulas</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>columns; finding labels automatically</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>rows; finding labels automatically</bookmark_value>
  <bookmark_value>recognizing; column and row labels</bookmark_value>
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<comment>mw changes "names;..." entry to "text in cells;..."</comment><comment>mw inserted three index entries from text/shared/optionen/01060500.xhp. Changed "finding;..." entry to "recognizing;..." entry. Adding (Calc) is no longer necessary in this file.</comment>

<h1 id="hd_id3148797"><variable id="address_auto"><link href="text/scalc/guide/address_auto.xhp">Recognizing Names as Addressing</link></variable></h1>
<paragraph id="par_id3152597" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can use cells with text to refer to the rows or to the columns that contain the cells.</paragraph><comment>removed table as a workaround for issue 108715</comment>
<paragraph id="par_id3156283" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><image id="img_id3154942" src="media/helpimg/names_as_addressing.png" width="5.408cm" height="2.212cm" localize="true"><alt xml-lang="en-US" id="alt_id3154942">Example spreadsheet</alt></image></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154512" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">In the example spreadsheet, you can use the string <item type="literal">'Column One'</item> in a formula to refer to the cell range <item type="literal">B3</item> to <item type="literal">B5</item>, or <item type="literal">'Column Two'</item> for the cell range <item type="literal">C2</item> to <item type="literal">C5</item>. You can also use <item type="literal">'Row One'</item> for the cell range <item type="literal">B3</item> to <item type="literal">D3</item>, or <item type="literal">'Row Two'</item> for the cell range <item type="literal">B4</item> to <item type="literal">D4</item>. The result of a formula that uses a cell name, for example, <item type="literal">SUM('Column One')</item>, is 600.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3155443" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Automatically finding labels is a legacy feature and deactivated by default as it can produce nondeterministic behavior depending on actual document content. To turn this function on, choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - %PRODUCTNAME Calc - Calculate</emph> and mark the <emph>Automatically find column and row labels</emph> check box.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3155444" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Using defined labels instead is always possible and behaves similar but in a defined way.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149210" role="tip" xml-lang="en-US">If you enter a label name in the formula yourself, enclose the name in single quotation marks ('). If a single quotation mark appears in a name, you must double it, for example, <item type="literal">'Harry''s Bar'</item>.</paragraph>

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