PL and bind variables

I was made some excercises with PL/SQL and some questions arrived to my mind.

I was wondering if is could be posible assign a table or column name to a variable and use that variable in a SQL statement within PL/SQL code.

In the PL/SQL manual exists some references to this, but the examples are with programming languages and embeded PL/SQL code. I checked this with the local Oracle representative. The response that I get was that I must use bind variables to do this, but I get an error in compile time about an invalid or bad use of a bind variable.

Can somebody tell me if is posible use variables to store tables or column names for queries in PL/SQL code?

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