To use structured references within your table, as in the example above, you first need to add some data to your Excel worksheet, with column names included across the top of this data.

As you do this, notice how Excel inserts the column headers—also known as structured references—into your formula, rather than direct cell references, and this is why it's important to have ...

Have you ever carefully crafted a formula in Excel, only to watch it unravel into chaos the moment you copy it across columns? It’s a maddening quirk of Excel tables—structured references that ...

Referencing can become difficult, especially if you’re using structured referencing. Instead, reference a spill range so you can use the hashtag shortcut.