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Copying forumlas down

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James has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Copying forumlas down

Need to copy a formula down that is next to a table of data for only the length of the data i.e. not to the bottom of the worksheet - without using the mouse.

RE: Copying forumlas down

Hello James,

Hope you enjoyed your Microsoft Excel Advanced course with Best STL.

Thank you for your question regarding copying a formula down without using a mouse. First of all, why would you not want to use the mouse, since it takes only 1 second to copy down no matter how far down you need to copy. All you have to do is double click the small square at the bottom right corner of the cell (mouse must be a thin cross) and this will copy the formula down the length of the data.

To do the same thing without a mouse takes many steps which is counter productive. But if you want to do it this way here goes.

1) First you need to know the full range that your formula is going to be copied into. e.g. G12:G144 The formula would be created into cell G11 and copied into the range. Before going onto the next step make sure that you have selected the cell where the formula has been created... i.e. G11

2) Open the Clipboard... Press Alt > H > FO > Esc > Ctrl + C to copy the formula in cell G11 and place into the Clipboard

3) Use GoTo to select the range as follows: Ctrl + G > type range i.e. G12:G144 into the Reference Area > Click OK

4) Ctrl + V > Esc > Up Arrow will take you back to G11

I hope this resolves your question. If it has, please mark this question as resolved.

If you require further assistance, please reply to this post. Or perhaps you have another Microsoft Office question?

Have a great day.
Regards,

Rodney
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

Thu 28 Jul 2011: Automatically marked as resolved.

Excel tip:

Use RANDBETWEEN to generate random numbers

There may be occassions where you need to generate random numbers in your spreadsheet. Use the RANDBETWEEN function to generate random numbers between two values that you specify.

The function looks like this:

=randbetween(LOW,HIGH)

where LOW is the lowest number you want generated; and HIGH is the highest number you want generated.

This formula will work with both positive and negative LOWs and HIGHs. Also it will only generate integer numbers unless forced to do otherwise by the following:

=randbetween(LOW*10^PRECISION,
HIGH*10^PRECISION)/(10^PRECISION).

where PRECISION represents the levels of decimal precision needed (i.e. if you need numbers with one decimal place, PRECISION would be 1; 2 for two decimal places and so on).

One final note, if the RANDBETWEEN formula does not work in your spreadsheet or returns a "#NAME" error, you need to install the Analysis Toolpak Add-In. You will need to press F2 then Enter following the installation.

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