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    Question Adding cell reference numbers together

    Hello all, first time poster, long time follower.

    I apologize for how vauge and undescriptive my title is, in fact, its probably not even asking the correct question. But i am somewhat of a novice when it comes to Excel. Right now i am trying to make a random schedule generator for my work shift.

    i will ask my question now then explain why i need it later.

    I want to to start with C10 then add 2 to that so it turns into C12. But instead of 2, I want it to be another cell so I can make it variable.
    So my endgame example would be;
    C10 = John
    C11 = Jacob
    C12 = Paul
    Z1 = 2 (or whatever number I type into the cell)
    So I start with
    C10 +Z1 (the changeable number) and I want that to equate to C12 (aka Paul)

    The way i have it currently set up, there are 4 tabs, one is the home page (where the random numbers are assigned), another is where i type my employee names, the third is the random number generator and the forth is the Print out final page.

    I am trying to randomly generate the first day of each set of shifts (4 total) and then the employee will drop down 11 spots, so they do not start the same position each day.

    I want to make it so the first day is randomized, then instead of dropping down 11 spots, i want it to drop down X spots. So the outcome would be changeable.

    I attached the spreadsheet to this thread, in case you need extra understanding of what I am asking for

    Thank you in advanced for the help.
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    Re: Adding cell reference numbers together

    heck this out
    http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions05.html

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    Re: Adding cell reference numbers together

    davesexcel, thank you for your extremely prompt response.

    As i stated before, i am a novice when it comes to excel. In the link you sent me, what section of that page were you referring to me?

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    Re: Adding cell reference numbers together

    Any other help would be welcomed

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    Re: Adding cell reference numbers together

    It's hard to understand, as there are no John,Jacob or Paul in your example workbook

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    Re: Adding cell reference numbers together

    Your right, im sorry Davesexcel, i will use actual examples from my workbook. In hindsight it was silly to even use non existant names

    So on the first page "Home" B9 is the first position on our rotation, it shows up on the "Print" page as 42 (and puts the name in for that rotation), then i manually jumped B9 down 11 times.
    So the next day whatever name was in B9 will be on a different area. I would like to elimitate the manual moving, and instead have B9 move down a selected amount of spots.

    That is where i am getting stumped. i dont know if i can have B9 have another number added to it.

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