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Default skip every other row when copying formula

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

"Andy Wiggins" wrote:

Try:

=IF(LEN(B1)0,"",INDIRECT("A"&INT(ROW(B2)/2)+1))

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Excel, Access and VBA Consultancy
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"RHD3" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply. It works for numbers, but my cell "entries" are
text.
I can't get it to work with text.

My column A is similar to:

\\test\ie\v03\0123
\\test\ie\v03\0456
etc.

"Andy Wiggins" wrote:

Assume your data in column A is:
11
22
33
44
55
66
77
88
99


11 is in cell A1 and 99 in in cell A11

In B1 put =A1
In cell B2 put:
=IF(ISNUMBER(B1),"",INDIRECT("A"&INT(ROW(B2)/2)+1))
Then drag it down.

In cell B1 you get 11 (obviously)
B2, B4, B6 and B8 are blank
B3 shows 22
B5 shows 33
B7 shows 44 and
B9 shows 55

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Andy Wiggins FCCA
www.BygSoftware.com
Excel, Access and VBA Consultancy
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"RHD3" wrote in message
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I would like to be able to skip every other row when copying a formula.
If
I
have data in column A for example, and I want to use a simple formula
in
column B like "=a1"(in cell b1) and "=a2"(in cell b3) and "=a3"(in cell
b5)
and so on. I have tried using the drag and fill but I end up missing
cells.