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What is a cell reference?

Short answer. A cell address used inside a formula.

Why not type the number?

Answers would not update.

Cell reference

Cell address in a formula
=B2+C2 uses their values
Change B2, answer updates

Remember

Use addresses, not numbers
Answers update by themselves

Why write B2 in a formula, not 450? That is a cell reference. It is a cell address in a formula. Equals B2 plus C2 uses their values. Change B2, and the answer updates. Remember. Use addresses, not numbers. Answers then update.

This clip is from the full lesson: Cell referencing — relative, mixed and absolute referencing — 6 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.

Useful for: CBSE Class 9 Information Technology (402)

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