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Using the mouse does not mean that you have to drag a formula down hundreds of pages. You can use a simple double click instead. Enter the formula into C1, then double-click the Fill Handle (the black square at the lower right corner of the cell) Before the double click: After the double click on the fill handle: Edit: How far will Excel fill down? You can not drag a cell, only the contents of the cell. You need either an input device (if not a mouse or keyboard, perhaps a touch screen) or program a macro to move cell contents. In a smaller spreadsheet, if I wanted to copy a formula down to the cells in the column below, I would simply drag and drop, or copy paste - easy. Since this spreadsheet is so long, I'd like to be able to copy/drag the formula to all 20000 rows without manually scrolling down with the mouse button held down (as it takes ages).
How To Drag A Formula Down In Excel Without Mouse
Dear everyone, I am wondering if we can drag formula by ignoring hidden rows/columns. I have a database, but not all cols needed in the formula (tables). Short and easy example. I want to sum from Col.A to Col.E, but I don't want to include data in Col.C (which is hidden in the database). So without deleting/moving the col.C, how can I drag the formula through from A to E? Any solutions for this would be very welcome Kind Regards, Sarin
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Send Emails from Excel using VBA and Macros. This course starts from the Basics and builds up to more advanced examples with attaching workbooks, worksheets, PDF's, automatically sending emails, including a signature, error handling, increasing speed, and more. Similar TopicsHi there. I'm using Excel 2007 and often use filters to find inconsistent data (mis-spellings, etc.) and then clean up the data using the fill handle to fill in correctly formatted values. I'm finding that, with a simple filter on, dragging over cells hidden by the filter changes the values in the hidden cells too. This is something I don't remember from my last version of Excel. I'm wondering if I've mis-remembered how this control works, or if there is a setting I can't find. My goal is to drag and fill (or paste) in a colum with a range of rows wiht some hidden (filtered out) rows, and have the filtered out data be unaffected, if that makes sense. Thanks! T
Hi All, If I drag a formula to the right it adapts the column letter in the formula from A to column B, which is standard Excel functionality. However, if I drag the formula to the right I want Excel to skip a column each time. In other words: =A1 ; = B1 ; = C1 Should be =A1 ; = C1 ; = E1 etc... Is there an easy trick to do this? Thanks, Michiel
Hello from sunny Madrid I have created a complex formula to help me calculating Golf handicaps for players. The formula is in the first cell and I want to drag the formula across to the right to cover the 18 holes. But ALL the values change and I want some to change and some to stay constant. How do I tell excel to drag the formula across but keep certain parts of the formula the same..ie ....=D11.... in the formula when dragged across doesn't go D12,D13;D14 in each cells formula and should stay as D11 for all. Many thanks for your help Ole
This is my first post in these forums. I am trying to create a formula which will look at the data in columns A - I (50 rows) and copy this data to columns K - S but ignoring any blank cells. Thereby consolidating the data in the upper rows with no spaces. I am sure there is a relativley simple answer but it is driving me mad! Hope you 'Guru's' can help Thanks Added example spreadsheet to aid assistance.
Let's say, if two fields in one column has been filled with numerical increament, i.e. A1 is 2 and A2 is 4. Now I want to fill the whole column with this increament pattern till row A20. One thing we will all do is to left click on the fill handle and drag it down to row A20. But if the task is to fill to row 500, the mouse draging sometime won't be easy to locate the row. I am wondering anyone can help me to find the keyboard shortcut equivalent to that drag fill handle action. Thanks
If you change Excel to Full Screen View and your taskbar is always on top (as it normally is), the bottom of the spreadsheet is hidden behind the taskbar. Does anyone know how to get around this without hiding the taskbar? I have found that if I drag the taskbar to the bottom and then back up again, the Excel window resizes itself correctly and the bottom of the spreadsheet is visible again. Problem is, I want to do this from VBA! Can anyone help please???
Column 1 has roughly 20 rows of information. Cell C1 has the formula =A1. Is there a formula so that when I drag C1 horizontally into D1, E1, F1, ..., the values placed in each cell will be =A2, =A3, =A4, ... I do not want to transpose the values from column 1 into C1, D1,.... I want these cells to have a formula that links them up to column 1's values Thanks Today I ran into an odd problem. I typed in values for column A rows 1 through 10 then values for column B rows 1 through 10. then in column C, I made the formula C1=A1/B1. The math was correct it showed 542 in the C1 cell. So I dragged that formula down and it showed 542 in all column C cells which is not correct. And when I went to check to see if the formula was correctly dragged it was. For instance, the formula in C2 is =A2/B2 however the value of that cell showed 542 which was not the correct math/value. But it gets even more weird. When I click on the Column C cells and then it shows the formula up top in the formula bar and if I put my cursor anywhere in the formula bar and hit Return the formula does not change however the correct value then appears in the Column C cell. It is like the act of putting the cursor in the formula activates it to work properly but until it is activated that C cell shows the value of the cell which it was dragged down from. This is quite bizarre. Has anyone ever seen this before? I have no idea what is going on. I ran a scan for viruses and none were found. I tried it on several new/different spreadsheets but it keeps happening. Thanks for any tips on this. Hi. I have a row in a spreadsheet in Excel that is hidden but i am unable to unhide it. I have tried the usual way by hovering between the rows above and below until i get the double line but this does not happen. I have also tried going through the Format - Row - Unhide option but this also doesn't work. Any suggestions? I have a formula in cell C1 (=A1/B1). I want to copy this formula down to row C20, however rows A2 to A20 are empty so C2 to C20 show (#DIVO!). Is there something I can put in the formula to make column C be blank until the data is enter into Columns A & B?
I saw two threads in this forum that asked this question, with no good answer. I am posting this solution for anybody still struggling with this. The question: How can you prevent a cell's contents from overflowing into the next cell? Of course, you can make the column wider or turn on text wrapping, but you might not want to. Each of those solutions can mess up the layout of your sheet. You may just want to truncate the value. Some people have suggested putting a space in the next cell. This is unnecessary, a pain in the but, and will mess up any ISBLANK type formulas, among other things. The solution: Select the cells in question and turn on text wrapping (Format>Cells>Alignment>Wrap Text). Now select the row(s) in question and manually set the row height, by right clicking the row number and selecting 'Row Height'. Check the height of an adjacent row for a good value. Your cells will now not spill over either horizontally or vertically. They will simply truncate anything that doesn't fit. Be careful now, because parts of your data may be hidden. This can cause its own set of problems if one or two digits are neatly hidden away. Think ahead if other people might be using this sheet, and not be expecting to have some data hidden. Tested in Excel 2002
I have a co-worker's file that he is having trouble with. He is using Excel 2000 SP3. When copying a cell with a formula in it of '=D6+C6' and pasting it into the next cell down, it will display the same value in the cell as the calculated value from above, but has the correct formula displayed in the formula bar of '=D7+C7'. Example: A1: 50 A2: 10 B1: 60 B2: 20 A3: Formula: =A1+A2 Displays: 60 Right click A3, Copy, right click B3, paste A3 displays 60 When I click save, it will change the display value to 80. I am trying this on his workstation and mine. Mine has Office 2010, so I think there might be an issue with the file itself. Also, not just copy and paste. I can also just click the top cell after filling in the formula and then drag the bottom right of the cell downward and it will do the same of filling in the correct formula, but have the incorrect value. I know that I could get him to just click save each time before really looking at the results, but that is just a band aid to the problem. Any ideas how to fix this? Hello - I am using Excel 2007. In prior versions of excel, when copying data, if I wanted to copy visible cells only, I would select 'Go To, Special, Visible Cells Only' and then copy a range a cells. The default was always set to copy everything (including hidden cells), unless I specifically selected copy visible cells only. In 2007, the default is somehow set to always copy only visible cells. Sometimes, I want to be able to copy all cells including those hidden but cannot seem to figure out how to swith this default option. I looked under Excel Options and did not see an option there. I don't want to have to unhide and rehide everything each time i copy. I know i could do the hiding and unhiding via VBA but would prefer not to have to. Thanks for your suggestions.
Could you guide me please.... I need to insert 5 blank rows repeatedly between every existing data rows for approximately 300 rows. If I go about doing the repeat short-cut 'Control+Y', it just repeats inserting ONE row only between the consecutive data row. Is there some command, which helps me highlight all the rows & allows me to insert 5 blank rows between every consecutive existing data row? Thanks in advance for your kind advice.
Hello, I'm pretty new at VBA and was wondering if you could help me out on this: I have created a VBA userform but will need to have it used by at least 5 users. My question is, can it be done with all users working at the same time and when saving their work all data entered will go to one master excel sheet? if yes, would you be kind enough to share the code? MS Access is not an option for me so I was wondering if you could help me do this in excel. thank you so much and would really appreciate to hear from anyone soon. I have a problem: I can't show some rows after they've been hidden with a macro. I tryed the 'select all / unhide', but it doesn't work. I noticed the row numbers are all blue now. What does it mean? (This could be the answer..:P) I have an Excel workbook that was created by a former coworker. It includes a macro that, among other things, displays a message box about the 2008 file. The macro runs as soon as the file is opened. I'd like to access that macro to correct the date to 2011 and see what else, if anything, it's doing for me (it doesn't appear to do much). I can find references to creating macros to hide and unhide rows/columns and I found ways to delete all macros in a workbook, but I cannot find anything about unhiding a macro without knowing its name. Does anyone know of a way to unhide this macro? Thanks!
Hi peeps I want to combine data from several worksheets into one worksheet. For example, I have data in Sheet1 (Columns A,B,C), data in Sheet2 (Columns A,B,C), data in Sheet3 (Columns A,B,C) all with varying amounts of rows. (All the rows contain text data). I need to combine all of the data from the 3 sheets into a single sheet, Sheet4 (Columns A,B,C), eliminating the empty rows. I've been looking into this for a while, and can't find anything that really helps. Anyone got any pointers of what to look into? Any help will be beautiful. Cheers In Excel there is a difference between cells that are blank (= ') and that are empty. You can make blank cells empty by selecting them and pressing the delete key, but I need a fast way to do this on all blank cells in a large worksheet. The only way I have found is with a VBA macro that loops through every cell, tests for '.Value = ' ' and then uses the '.Clear()' function, but doing this on 30 columns x 10000 rows is far too slow. Any solutions? (The reason I need to do this is for importing into Access, the database treats empty cells as NULL which is what I want. Blank (but not empty) cells screw the import process up.)
Hi there, I'm very new to Excel, and I'm having trouble figuring a few things out. Hopefully this will be very easy for you guys! In Sheet 1, I have a column of cells that I would like to also appear in Sheet 2. If I add a new row to the column in Sheet 1, I would also like it to be updated automatically in Sheet 2. Currently, I can get it to show the contents of individual cells from Sheet 1 in Sheet 2 by using this formula in the formula bar for each cell in Sheet 2: =Sheet1!A3 (or whichever cell it is) That's fine, but I'd like to just have a formula that will reproduce the entire column (ie. without a fixed range, as new rows are going to be added to the column). If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be very very grateful. Thanks. |