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Please can you explain a little more on $ signs

Edited on Fri 14 Mar 2008, 10:13

RE: excel 2007

Hiya Mia

How are you today hope you enjoyed the training course on Monday

To give you more explaination on the use of dollar signs will be as follows

when you need dollar signs there is a reason, this is so you can always look in one place for that part of the formula here is an example of using the dollars =d4+h7*f6+$h$25

You will then be using this cell for any copied formulas to other cells

you can have have the dollar signs in four different way these are below

H25 - relative, means will change when copied
$H$25 - permanent cell, means this will remember the cell
$H25 - permanent column, means will remember the column
H$25 - permanent row, means will remember the row

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please click reply or post it as a new question and we should be able to answer that!!

Hope this helps

Mark East
mark@stl-training.co.uk

Excel tip:

Generating Random Numbers

To generate a random number in Excel use the = RAND() function.

The value returned will always be between 0 and 1. To convert this to some other random value, you will need to multiply the result by the highest number you want to consider. For example, if you wanted a random number between 1 and 25, you could use the following code line:
= INT(25 * RAND()+ 1)

Since RAND() will always returns a value between 0 and 1 (but never 1 itself), multiplying what it returns by 25 and then using the Integer function INT on that result will return a whole number between 0 and 24.

Finally, 1 is added to this result, so that x will be equal to a number between 1 and 25, inclusive

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