Get value from the cell above

Question

Is it possible in Google Spreadsheets to reach the value of the cell just above?

Meaning: In one cell A2 I want to display the value from the cell above

Answer 1

For anyone who stumbles across this question, you can also specify the column by doing something like this:

=INDIRECT("A" & ROW()-1)

This comes in handy if you are returning values in Column B but checking against the previous row in Column A.