Excel Reference Operators
There are 3 Reference Operators in Excel:
- “:” (colon) is the Range operator, which produces one reference to all the cells between two cells references, including the cells written in the reference text, like: A11:A13
- “,” (comma) is the Union operator, which combines multiple Ranges into one reference, like A11:A13 , A11:C11 , A11 (you can refer to simple cells too, not only to ranges with multiple cells)
- ” ” (space) is the Intersection operator, which returns a reference to the cell or to the range of cells found at the intersection of the ranges. In this example, only cell A11 is found in both ranges: A11:A13 A11:C11