How to copy formula without changing its cell references in Excel? Normally Excel adjusts the cell references if you copy your formulas to another location in your worksheet.
Excel for Mac 2011: (This is a bit of an aside -- for moving without overwriting, rather than copying). Use shift-drag, i.e. Select the cells you want to move; keeping the shift key pressed, drag the cells; drop the cells where you want (and then release the shift key) microsoft-excel-2011-for-mac. When you copy a range of cells that contains hidden rows or columns, Excel includes ALL of the selected rows. Here are instructions on how to copy and paste visible cells only (please see the video above for As you can see, there are a lot of different ways to select the visible cells in Excel.
You would have to fix all cell references with a dollar sign ($) or press F4 key to toggle the relative to absolute references to prevent adjusting the cell references in formula automatically. If you have a range of formulas need to be copied, these methods will be very tedious and time-consuming. If you want to copy the formulas without changing cell references quickly and easily, try the following methods:. In Excel, you can copy formula without changing its cell references with Replace function as following steps: 1. Select the formula cells you will copy, and click Home Find & Select Replace, or press shortcuts CTRL+H to open the Find & Select dialog box. Click Replace button, in the Find what box input “ =”, and in the Replace with box input “ #” or any other signs that different with your formulas, and click the Replace All button. Basically, this will stop the references from being references.
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For example, “ =A1.B1” becomes “ #A1.B1”, and you can move it around without excel automatically changing its cell references in current worksheet. And now all “ =” in selected formulas are replaced with “ #”. And a dialog box comes out and shows how many replacements have been made. Please close it. See above screenshot: And the formulas in the range will be changed to text strings. See screenshots: 4.
Copy and paste the formulas to the location that you want of the current worksheet. Select the both changed ranges, and then reverse the step 2. Click Home Find & Select Replace or press shortcuts CTRL+H, but this time enter “ #” in the Find what box, and “ =” in the Replace with box, and click Replace All. Then the formulas have been copied and pasted into another location without changing the cell references.
See screenshot: Copy formula without changing its cell references by converting formula to text. Select the formula cells you will copy, and click Kutools Exact copy. In the first Exact Formula Copy dialog box, please click OK. And in the second Exact Formula Copy dialog box, please specify the first cell of destination range, and click the OK button. See screenshot: Tip: Copy formatting option will keep all cells formatting after pasting the range, if the option has been checked. And all selected formulas have been pasted into the specified cells without changing the cell references. See screenshot: Demo: copy formulas without changing cell references in Excel.
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