“Non-contiguous” range specification in formula
问题 [2018-08-01: See new material near bottom of post.] I just ran across a Q-n-A here that included an example of a function referencing a range using a specification I had not seen before. I played around with it a little and discovered that most Excel functions will return a value when using this kind of reference: =SUM(A1:A5:C1:C5:E1:E2:F3:F4) Notice all the ":"s in there. With the cursor in the formula bar, those non-contiguous cells are highlighted, as if only those cells would be totaled.