see Insert row and maintain formulas
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/insrtrow.htm
and for strictly the OFFSET part see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/offset.htm
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"SC1975" wrote in message ...

Sorry this may be a stupid question

We have an old spread sheet converted from Lotus 123. There was a short key
"Alt+d" that would delete the selected line and insert a line further down on
the spread sheet, just above the row with all our totals. (Also there is a
section below the "totals" row with summary totals of everything on the
spread sheet.) This would allow all the formulas at the bottom of the spread
sheet to not be affected when a row above was deleted. Was this a macro of
some sort in Lotus? Is there some was to do this in Excel.

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