Sorry I wasn't very clear. generally speaking this is a bad idea but it works great if you have a small table.

1) in my ViewDidLoad I create an array of cells.

2) Then in my cellForRowAtIndexPath, I return the particular cell in my array.

- (UITableViewCell )tableView:(UITableView )tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];

return [cellArray objectAtIndex:row]; }