Merci beaucoup pour ton message Geronimo

Hi Will, and thanks for your question. As an example I have in Column A: A1:”Fruits”, A2:”Apple”,A3:”Cherry”,A4:”Pear”. In the ‘Managed Names’ Window, click on the ‘Add’ button, then enter as name ‘fruits’, then in the ‘Range or formula expression’ enter “OFFSET($A$2,0,0,COUNTA($A:$A)-1,1)”(without the quotes).
The COUNTA($A:$A)-1 counts all the cells with a value in the column A, minus 1 to exclude the header in A1 (“Fruits”), if you don’t put any header you can omit the ‘-1’. The OFFSET here is simply returning a range with a height of n rows, n being the number of values in column A -1, and a width of 1 Column, with the top-left cell being at $A$2 with no offset (0,0).
Now in any other column you can access the elements of the named range with “=INDEX(fruits,2)” -> Cherry. The range will expand when adding e.g. “Banana” in Cell A5.To verify the number of values listed in the range ‘fruits’, you can do “=COUNTA(fruits)” in any cell and see it growing when you add a new fruit in the list. And as a proof that it is not simply counting the non-empty cells in column A, try in a cell “=INDEX(fruits;5) and you’ll get a ‘#Ref’ error because there is no elements at index 5 of the ‘fruits’ range.
It is confusing because the named range will not appear in the ‘Name Box’ drop down list, but you can still access it. Aso, when selecting the name ‘fruits’ in the ‘Manage Names’ window it will refer to the entire Column A). Another example is to select a cell (outside your range’s column) and go in “Data/Validity”, then select ‘Cell Range’ and enter ‘fruits’ in the name of the cell range. The cell will then be populated with a drop down list bound to your ‘fruit’ named range.
I am calling it a named range, but it is actually only a cell range with a reference hence it not being displayed in the ‘Name Box’ or in the ‘Range names’ section in the Navigator.
Please let me know if that answers you question. Cheers

Your thank you is already a reward for me. You can buy me a coffee there https://bmc.link/tutolibro.
Thank you Dun.

Thank you so much….this tutorial is the bomb! Is there a tip jar?

Hi Dun and thank you for your comment. The executable for Geany with full path, on linux ubuntu is probalby ‘/usr/local/bin/geany’ if you have installed it using apt. That is what you should type in the ‘Editor’ setting for the APSO add-on. If the geany exectuable is not in there, you can find it with the command ‘which geany’ in a terminal.
If you installed it using flatpak, geany should be listed in ‘/var/lib/flatpak/app’. However I am not sure what you should path you should use for a flatpak version in the APSO editor setting. Let me know if that is your case. Take care

Thank you so much for your tutorial…it is brilliant…I have been faffing around trying to find out how to start…but all the information/tutorials are far too advanced! Keep it up!

My question is….what is the Geany executable called? I cannot seem to find anything obvious. I am on Ubuntu 23.04 and Libreoffice 7.5.

Hi Norman and thanks for your Question. Please let me know where you are finding differences, the tutorial was made with an older version of LibreOffice Calc indeed. If it is the ‘Annex 1 – Assign a Python Macro to a key, in LO7.5.1.2 you’ll find your Macro under Tools/Customise/ Then Keyboard Tab, and in the Category section you will need to expand “Application Macro”, to find your macro.
Thank you