Re: Expressions for Names?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:38:59PM +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the dialog box for assigning names to cells, there's an entry field 
> "expression".
>
> Does this mean that names for cells can be calculated?
>
> Such as e.g. by looking them up in the first row(s)/column(s) of a sheet?

Yes.  These are named _expressions_ not just named cells or ranges.
    FOO : =SUM($A$1:$B$2)
is legal.

The identifier of the name is not an expression, but it's value is.
This is just shy of user defined functions (a feature we're
considering).