Copy Down
Posted by jeggent on August 8, 2017
This is part of the Tuesday Excel Tips series.
If your spreadsheet needs some kind of list or series of labels such as a count, days of the week, days, months, etc. Excel can help you out with that. As shown in the example below, a count is being entered into the first column. We only need to enter the first couple of values so that Excel can determine that we increment the value by 1 each time. Select those values and then place your mouse pointer on the box in the lower right corner of the selection. Drag the cursor down to the last row you’d like filled and Excel will fill in the values for you. If you already have data populated in the adjoining rows, you can just double-click that box and it will fill in the series down to your last row of data. I think you will be pleasantly surprised how often Excel will figure out what values you’d like filled in. This also works with formulas. If in cell A1 you have the formula “=B1+C1” you can copy that down to the following rows and Excel will automatically update the references to B2+C2, B3+C3, and so on.
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