In Excel 2010, I have an OLE DB connection that brings in data from an SQL query. Excel automatically created the table reference for this (Table1). The table contains headers and Excel knows this; they are formatted in the table as such.
When I try to use a SUMIF function and ask it to sum the column Table1[Column], I get a #VALUE error. I'm assuming because Excel is including the header in the data, which is a text entry. Otherwise, all the other values in the column are numbers.
I'm currently using a defined named range to get round the issue but I'd like to use the table reference instead because as the SQL data grows and shrinks, so does the table range that Excel performs calculations on.